crack-ups

plural of crack-up
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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
  • The operations managers have to monitor dozens of dashboards while responding to technology breakdowns, reallocating resources, and making rapid-fire decisions.
    Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This has been seen when pro leagues and players’ associations litigate against each other during work stoppages caused by breakdowns in labor relations.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The changing gravitational field as a star sheds mass can disrupt the planets' orbits, resulting in many collisions between asteroids, comets and surviving planets and moons over billions of years that can grind solid bodies down to dust and small chunks.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Just this month, the regulator opened a new inquiry into dozens of reports that Teslas with FSD engaged had violated traffic laws, with some of these incidents leading to collisions and injuries.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But most deer versus vehicle crashes are the result of breeding season, when bucks are active and increasing their movement.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Three people were killed and one injured in three vehicle crashes on Arkansas roads on Wednesday and Friday, according to preliminary police reports.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Bacon takes his time getting to the fateful voyage; there are myriad sidebars of varying interest on topics such as Great Lakes shipping and the rise of taconite, two lake wrecks that foreshadowed the Fitz, even the sailors’ favorite watering holes.
    Kevin Duchschere, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Bankruptcies, drunk driving charges, delinquent child support, foreclosures, nickel-and-dime car wrecks, suspicious slip-and-falls, dubious claims of disabilities — the stock-in- trade of a run-of-the-mill street lawyer whose law school dreams of riches had faded so dim they were almost gone.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Crack-ups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crack-ups. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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