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as in fallen
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as in destroyed
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as in unconscious
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as in crumpled
to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure
the motel balcony collapsed under the weight of so many people
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as in failed
to be unsuccessful
the legal case collapsed in the face of the opposition's evidence
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as in compressed
to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members together
the novel collapses events from four separate trips into one long odyssey
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Recent Examples of collapsed
Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
The frantic scene after an aluminum gangway collapsed Saturday at a boat dock on a Georgia barrier island capped what was supposed to have been a day of celebration, an annual festival spotlighting the culture and history of Sapelo Island's tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants.
—CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
The frantic scene after an aluminum gangway collapsed Saturday at a boat dock on a Georgia barrier island capped what was supposed to have been a day of celebration, an annual festival spotlighting the culture and history of Sapelo Island’s tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
Some have collapsed onto the straw, struggling to feed themselves.
—Léa Pernelle, Fortune Europe, 21 Oct. 2024
Cuba blackout Millions in Cuba have been left without power over the last several days as the aging Cuban electrical grid repeatedly collapsed.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
Seven people are dead and at least three critically injured after a three-year-old gangway collapsed at a landing dock on Sapelo Island.
—Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
Amid the day's elation, tragedy crept in as a 57-year-old man competing in the marathon collapsed and died around the fifth mile marker in the Canadian stretch of the course.
—Liam Rappleye, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2024
As some were ready to board a ferry returning to the mainland, a gangway collapsed on the visitor ferry dock and at least 20 people were plunged into the Duplin River, Georgia Department of Natural Resources officials said.
—Nicole Chavez, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
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Four years after the radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed, a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is shining a light on the unprecedented failures that caused its destruction.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
The frantic scene after an aluminum gangway collapsed Saturday at a boat dock on a Georgia barrier island capped what was supposed to have been a day of celebration, an annual festival spotlighting the culture and history of Sapelo Island's tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants.
—CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
The frantic scene after an aluminum gangway collapsed Saturday at a boat dock on a Georgia barrier island capped what was supposed to have been a day of celebration, an annual festival spotlighting the culture and history of Sapelo Island’s tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
Some have collapsed onto the straw, struggling to feed themselves.
—Léa Pernelle, Fortune Europe, 21 Oct. 2024
Cuba blackout Millions in Cuba have been left without power over the last several days as the aging Cuban electrical grid repeatedly collapsed.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
Seven people are dead and at least three critically injured after a three-year-old gangway collapsed at a landing dock on Sapelo Island.
—Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
Amid the day's elation, tragedy crept in as a 57-year-old man competing in the marathon collapsed and died around the fifth mile marker in the Canadian stretch of the course.
—Liam Rappleye, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2024
As some were ready to board a ferry returning to the mainland, a gangway collapsed on the visitor ferry dock and at least 20 people were plunged into the Duplin River, Georgia Department of Natural Resources officials said.
—Nicole Chavez, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for collapsed
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Mercury in Sagittarius is igniting your 12th house of closure, healing and unconscious patterns, pushing you to do some serious soul-searching.Valerie Mesa, People.com, 2 Nov. 2024
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Foster this by offering regular training on unconscious bias and media ethics, as well as establishing ongoing feedback loops that give employees a voice.Kristelle Beecher, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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The deluge weakened the soil, triggering cascading landslides that crumpled homes and roads.Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024
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Everest’s origin story began about 40 million to 50 million years ago, when landmasses on two slabs of Earth’s crust — the India Plate and the Eurasian Plate — collided in slow motion and crumpled the terrain, raising rocky peaks that over millions of years became the Himalayan mountain range.Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
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That similar proposal to charge a 2% fine on every fee related to a criminal case and civil traffic violations failed to win majority support in the Senate in 2022 and thus did not appear on the ballot.Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024
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The 100% default had come into play when someone failed to respond to notices from Social Security and the demand for repayment.Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2024
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But with the air briefly trapped in a small space beneath the wing and the surface, it gets compressed, increasing the pressure below the wing and generating extra lift.New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Oct. 2024
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Since then, digital transformation, steep competition and our collective appetite for innovation have dramatically compressed the product life cycle.Keith Yandell, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
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And now, decades later, Dora Richardson had become a faded historical aside, a name on a patent, and not much more.Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
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At the official start of the fall 2024 NFL season in September, the tight end, 35, made waves with his look, which had gone from his signature buzz cut to a shaggy crew cut with super faded sides.Michelle Lee, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024
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The delay was made necessary after last week's split ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that said the 1,000-foot chain of buoys floating for the past year near Eagle Pass may remain in place while the legal wrangling continues.John C. Moritz, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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So there were some split kitchen tables, but not enough to help Harris win.Daniel Wood, NPR, 21 Nov. 2024
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Seeing how fast Ukraine went from thousands of drones to millions, things could move quickly.David Hambling, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Silicon Valley walked in like in the way Elon Musk walked into Twitter and went, ‘How many people work here?Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
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For the project, Moncler had to find a loom to create fabric wide enough to cut a single piece that could then be folded into either a field jacket, a parka or a poncho.Evan Clark, WWD, 3 Oct. 2024
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In a series full of fan-favorite characters who would later be officially folded into DC Comics lore, like Bullock and fellow Gotham cop Renee Montoya — who herself was later revealed to be a lesbian, in the pages of the police procedural Gotham Central — Harley Quinn was a true runaway sensation.Samantha Riedel, Them, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Collapsed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collapsed. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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