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Recent Examples of Synonyms for meltdowns
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Those improvements include pipe insulation, walls, attics, weather stripping doors and windows and installing storm windows to prevent future disasters.—
Tanya Babbar,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 May 2026 -
The seemingly limitless budgets and bottomless demand for content of the streaming television era have allowed studios to dramatize both long-ago and recent disasters.—
David Faris,
TheWeek,
14 May 2026
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According to spending breakdowns from the California Department of Education, administrative salaries account for a single‑digit share of K–12 education spending statewide.—
James Ward,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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The past has a way of forcing its way into the present through memory, guilt, shame, anger and, in many cases, emotional breakdowns.—
Jerry Colonna,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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Its teams in 2007-08, 2013-14 and 2022-23 were in first place for long stretches of the season, only for late collapses to allow the title to slip away.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
19 May 2026
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Meanwhile, as trust in journalism collapses and most of the actual reporting disappears behind paywalls, readers head straight for the comment sections, which seem more like the voice of the people than anything written by a reporter — except many of those commenters may not be people at all.—
Lane Brown,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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Naturally, the theft of the ghost shirt by the stooges in the employ of Roy Lee is accompanied by many deceased bodies — the first of the many bloodbaths in Americana, which has a distressingly expedient approach to on-screen carnage.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
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The winter had been a season of calamities, with one emergency or challenge after another.—
Moira McCarthy,
Boston Herald,
10 May 2026
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Farmers markets — that humble and charming throwback to a bygone era — are also struggling with higher fuel prices, after weathering the economic calamities of the pandemic and other misfortunes.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2026
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California is being hammered with more frequent and devastating catastrophes, and that’s making the entire insurance market riskier and more expensive, exacerbating mistakes made by government and the private sector alike.—
Ben Allen,
Oc Register,
2 May 2026
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What was in the hearts of the humans who diarized catastrophes on the Elbe’s river rocks seven centuries ago—and in 2018?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Apr. 2026
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Firstly, the inciting tragedies are not fresh in terms of time, even if the pain is still all too raw nearly 20 years after the fact.—
Josh Slater-Williams,
IndieWire,
19 May 2026
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But autopsy reports — one record of how these babies died — painted the clearest picture of these tragedies.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
18 May 2026
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None of this sets off alarms right away.—
Gregory Lipich,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Spread to Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, and Uganda plus clusters of unexplained deaths suggest a far larger outbreak than reported and raise fresh alarms over funding, supplies and regional preparedness.—
Chinedu Asadu,
Los Angeles Times,
17 May 2026
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