buckling
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of buckling
C20: from German Bückling
Example Sentences
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As subscriber growth slows, Big Streaming is buckling down on revenue maximization and pulling back on its free-spending ways.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025
Chinese food-delivery giant Meituan 3690 -1.44%decrease; red down pointing triangle swung into the red for the first time in nearly three years, buckling under the costs of a brutal price war.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
They are more engaging with the media, and when under pressure on the field have held their nerve rather than buckling.
From BBC • Oct. 21, 2025
Mahan has a way of describing the buckling blow to Las Vegas’ economy.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2025
As the glacier moved, crevasses would sometimes compress, buckling ladders like toothpicks; other times a crevasse might expand, leaving a ladder dangling in the air, only tenuously supported, with neither end mounted on solid ice.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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