1
as in breakdowns
a mental or nervous collapse
a crack-up required him to take a year off from work
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2
as in collisions
the violent coming together of two bodies into destructive contact
two people were injured in a serious crack-up on the interstate
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Noun
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Their review shows that conflict can lead to negative outcomes such as stress, anxiety, depression, poor decision-making or relationship breakdowns.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025 -
There are also totals for the next two seasons — £126million and £89m — but no position-by-position breakdowns.—
Matt Slater,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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Even in areas accustomed to heavier snowfalls, accumulations in this range can result in delays, collisions and road closures if not treated promptly.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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The high-energy neutrons produced during fusion, being electrically neutral, escape towards the walls of the tokamak, allowing most of the energy produced to be recovered (and ultimately creating tritium in collisions with lithium).—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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Is the number of American students who die or are seriously injured in vehicle crashes abroad tracked?—
Tanya Mohn,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Two pedestrians were critically injured after being hit by cars in separate crashes in Fort Worth Saturday night, police said.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Sep. 2025
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The wrecks are time machines, and getting inside one is the payoff for what, in some cases, may have been decades of research and painstaking searches using sonar to methodically probe thousands of miles of open water.—
Frank Witsil,
Freep.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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The wrecks were two of four fatal crashes that happened last week on East Bay highways.—
Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Crack-ups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crack-ups. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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