wreckage
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Irvine police on Saturday said the wreckage of the car was being stored in a secured tow facility in Costa Mesa that is often contracted by police to store damaged vehicles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
A team of researchers have arrived at a remote island to inspect possible plane wreckage of famed aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished in 1937 while flying around the world.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
As we look at the wreckage together, she begins to disparage it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Footage shows waves licking the wreckage as multiple responders attempted to free the canine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
How they’d made their way through the wreckage to that tiny dry patch of roof.
From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis
Vocabulary lists containing wreckage
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -age
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Compound Fracture
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