1
as in collapsed
to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure
the flimsy bridge buckled under the weight of the caravan of trucks
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as in devoted
to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention
buckled himself down and finished the assignment in record time
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Recent Examples of buckled
On a chilly January night in 2025, CATS bus driver Sheila Andrews buckled her seatbelt at the uptown Charlotte transit center as passengers boarded.
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Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 2 June 2026
Bexley was found unharmed, buckled in her car seat, by passersby who called 911.
—Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 28 May 2026
City information officer Jay Pelayo said that the building's walls and surrounding scaffolding buckled, trapping people in piles of debris, per the BBC.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 24 May 2026
The shoes feature an open toe design with four criss cross straps over the toes and a thin and dainty buckled ankle strap.
—Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 18 May 2026
Another officer noticed one of the children was not properly buckled and was crying.
—Wcco Staff, CBS News, 14 May 2026
One of the children wasn’t properly buckled and was crying.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 14 May 2026
Wanner’s 11-month-old baby was buckled into a high chair and crying, without her mom, when a relative arrived to the home that day.
—Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 2 May 2026
The entire roster took that edict to heart in Game 1, and the Timberwolves buckled under the pressure.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 2 June 2026
Bexley was found unharmed, buckled in her car seat, by passersby who called 911.
—Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 28 May 2026
City information officer Jay Pelayo said that the building's walls and surrounding scaffolding buckled, trapping people in piles of debris, per the BBC.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 24 May 2026
The shoes feature an open toe design with four criss cross straps over the toes and a thin and dainty buckled ankle strap.
—Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 18 May 2026
Another officer noticed one of the children was not properly buckled and was crying.
—Wcco Staff, CBS News, 14 May 2026
One of the children wasn’t properly buckled and was crying.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 14 May 2026
Wanner’s 11-month-old baby was buckled into a high chair and crying, without her mom, when a relative arrived to the home that day.
—Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 2 May 2026
The entire roster took that edict to heart in Game 1, and the Timberwolves buckled under the pressure.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buckled
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Funded by the National Science Foundation, the film investigates evidence that Greenland’s ice sheet collapsed in the past and asks what that reveals about the planet’s future.—
Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
9 June 2026
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Crucially, the study found that a major sanctuary called Amyklai remained active after the palace collapsed, and later became important to both Spartans and Lakedaimonians.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
8 June 2026
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Over a three-year period, the researchers devoted 20 to 30 hours of telescope time to studying around 100 of the most promising signal candidates.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
31 May 2026
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The Miller-Penrose house became an important meeting place for artistic exchange, where Miller devoted herself to culinary experiments that paid tribute to the inventiveness of her friends.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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One of the victims fled to a McDonald's restaurant where his bloodstained clothes, which were likely cut off by paramedics, were crumpled on the floor near the entrance.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
7 June 2026
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MacKinnon initially crumpled to the ice in pain after blocking the shot, briefly getting to one knee and clearing the puck out of the defensive zone before falling back to the ice.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
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City attorney Andrea Leslie-Fite told council members the moratorium cannot be applied to projects that were already approved because of constraints within state law.—
Mary Ramsey
Updated June 8,
Charlotte Observer,
9 June 2026
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More than 32,000 fans applied to be selected.—
Damian Calhoun,
Oc Register,
8 June 2026
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CrowdStrike shares also tumbled around 10% in after-hours trading despite its fiscal first-quarter results narrowly beating Wall Street expectations.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
4 June 2026
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Chinese demand for oil has tumbled 9% from before the Iran war, according to JPMorgan.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
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Voters gave the president similar ratings in Reuters polls in April and mid-May, and close to his first-term low of 33% back in December 2017.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
8 June 2026
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Castro, appearing notably thinner in his olive-green military uniform, entered a theater full of military officers and government officials who gave him a standing ovation.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
8 June 2026
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“Buckled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buckled. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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