Example Sentences

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Now, MFS is collapsing and facing accusations that it pledged collateral more than once.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

The international space treaty system is collapsing just as the hardware gets interesting.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 30, 2025

Some online publishers say the practice is collapsing traffic to their sites, as searchers never follow through to the source of the information, whether on Slate, Wikipedia, ESPN, or IMDB.

From Slate • May 21, 2025

“Cutting it by two-thirds moves California in the wrong direction at a time when local journalism is collapsing across the state,” Waldman said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

And maybe this corner of American and Joy is collapsing under the weight of all that troubles me, too—we left everything we loved behind in Haiti and my mother was put into something like jail.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi