Example Sentences

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“Bitcoin is crashing and investors are freaking out,” Anthony Pompliano, a crypto evangelist and investor, wrote Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

Hubbard, who is crashing at the home of her godfather in Arkansas, said she’s considering it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

That’s partly why the birth rate is crashing in Japan from 1.2 million births in the year 2000 to below 700,000 today.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2024

Combined with loosened restrictions on transfers between schools, a college version of free agency - the player rights shift that changed US professional sports forever in the 1970s - is crashing through the college ranks.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2023

His new, hip hair says I got this, but his fretful face gives away the fact that the whole deal is crashing and burning.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti