Example Sentences

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While the company is still viewed as a leader in creative software, Adobe recently has buckled under competitive pressure and market skepticism over its own efforts to integrate and monetize AI.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

The housing market has buckled under the strain of mortgage rates that have more than doubled from a year ago.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2022

Since the war began, its economy has buckled under the stress of runaway inflation, evaporating foreign investment and shrinking grain supplies.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2022

The B4069 near Lyneham in Wiltshire has buckled in places, leaving huge cracks in the road, due to subsidence.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2022

That is the landscape I focus on, a field of oblongs, gently undulating where the earth beneath has buckled, from decade after decade of winter frost.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood