derailment
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Origin of derailment
Example Sentences
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The immediate crisis is compounded by the derailment of future supply.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
Stripping out certain one-time items, such as expenses related to its tie-up with Union Pacific and continued costs from its freight-train derailment in Ohio, earnings were $3.22 a share.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
Puente has said investigators were looking to see if a broken section of rail was "the cause or the result" of the derailment.
From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026
A derailment near Santiago de Compostela in 2013 that killed 80 people was not part of the AVE network, although that train was travelling at high speed.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
Chances are his train was late, because in 1984 there was a fire somewhere on the New York system every day and a derailment every other week.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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