as in to crack
to yield to mental or emotional stress
rather than melt down, the team strengthened their resolve and ended up winning the game
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as in tailspin
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as in collapse
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Recent Examples of melt down
Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2024
Canadian pure gold coins, cut and ready to be melted down.
—Joseph Bien-Kahn, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
In a competitive situation, Deadline is told that the streamer has secured the rights to Weather Girl, an apocalyptic one-woman play about a Californian weather girl in meltdown that staged sold out shows throughout August to rave reviews.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
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On March 28, 1979, the Unit 2 reactor core at the Three Mile Island plant partially melted down when equipment malfunctions, compounded by human operator errors, caused a water pump failure that resulted in a loss of coolant to the reactor, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2024
Canadian pure gold coins, cut and ready to be melted down.
—Joseph Bien-Kahn, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
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Advertisement The Yankees’ fifth-inning defensive meltdown was pure, Charlie Chaplin-caliber slapstick comedy.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
In a competitive situation, Deadline is told that the streamer has secured the rights to Weather Girl, an apocalyptic one-woman play about a Californian weather girl in meltdown that staged sold out shows throughout August to rave reviews.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
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But if anyone’s going to crack this case for real, the safe money’s on Houlihan, the eagle-eyed 25-year-old detective who seems to be the only one with a gut instinct worth following.Caroline Framke, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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It has been used to crack some of the country’s most frustrating cold cases, most notably the arrest of the Golden State Killer in 2018.Alaa Elassar, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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This sent the tribal council into a tailspin as the remaining players scrambled on who to vote out.Emily DeLetter, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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Days later, Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, sending the already-faltering economy into a tailspin.Dan Alexander, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Unable to meet these demands, they were forced to sell, triggering a sharp collapse in silver prices to under $11 per ounce.Ansel Lindner, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Moving the timing back by four years allowed Logan to look at the collapse of the whaling industry, which was on its last legs, undone by dwindling whale populations and the popularity of kerosene as a replacement energy source for whale oil.Brent Lang, Variety, 18 Nov. 2024
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Things were going fair to middling with his candidacy until Biden’s catastrophic, catatonic debate performance in June, which caused a major Democratic freak-out and resulted in his grudging departure from the ticket and endorsement of Harris.Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Worry not: Renée Rouleau Rest Day Masque helps skin bounce back from ingredient irritation with an occlusive formula that seals in the soothing, inflammation-reducing benefits of shea butter, fatty acids, and vitamin E. No more flaky freak-out face.Allure, Allure, 26 Sep. 2024
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Going to space after the Columbia disaster Eileen Collins’ fourth and final mission came on the heels of the tragic Columbia disaster.Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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As the film reminds us, any number of iffy career choices, like that role in the cinematic disaster that was Sgt.David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
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The Gutierrez brothers grew up in a low-income house with an alcoholic father who frequently beat both his sons and his wife, who at one point was hospitalized after a nervous breakdown, according to Diane Mosnik, a clinical neuropsychologist who evaluated Gutierrez in 2019.Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 16 July 2024
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Set in 1960s Italy, Sally Bishop (Monroe) and her husband travel to a remote villa in the wake of Sally’s nervous breakdown.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
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At the time, Santa’s Slay got a fair amount of attention for its opening scene, in which an ensemble composed entirely of Jewish actors sits down for a Christmas dinner that turns into a bloodbath once Santa (Goldberg) punches his way down the chimney.Katie Rife, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells 9 hours ago Divining Who Will Win the Presidency The post-pandemic period has been a bloodbath for political incumbents around the world.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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Armed with that information, off-roading is a lot less likely to be marred by choking, toxic smoke that comes along with dangerous levels of combustion if users know which areas to avoid.Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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He is accused of fatally choking 30-year-old Jordan Neely on a New York City subway in 2023.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Melt down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melt%20down. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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