- present participle of buckle.
buckling
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of buckling
C20: from German Bückling
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And the pressure on infrastructure—rail lines buckling, things like that—disrupts transport and logistics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Christine Ji and Hannah Pedone looked into the reasons for the buckling AI trade, with more than two-thirds of stocks in the S&P 500 information technology sector down at least 20% from their recent highs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Video from inside the building shows the buckling beam.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
"Right now 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
When he had finished, drawing up his pants and buckling his belt, Bernabe knelt on the floor near the spider, watching it work.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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