1
as in collapsing
to be unsuccessful
a time when businesses were cratering left and right
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2
as in plunging
to go to a lower level especially abruptly
the stock price cratered when the company filed for Chapter 11
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Last week, as financial panic escalated following Milei’s party’s poor showing in local elections, Argentina’s central bank spent more than $1 billion of its foreign currency reserves to keep the peso from collapsing.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025 -
Long after John Quincy Adams passed away in 1848 (collapsing of a stroke while working at his desk in the Capitol), newer versions emerged—as Jim Crow laws, after the failure of Reconstruction in the 1870s, and later as the filibuster during the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century.—
Time,
Time,
24 Sep. 2025
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On Halloween of 2022, just weeks into the new school year, senior Ehni Ler Htoo was making his way through the halls of Proctor High School in Utica, New York, when a fellow student lurched at him from behind, repeatedly plunging a 9-inch hunting knife into his back.—
Tonya Simpson,
ABC News,
24 Sep. 2025
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Skyrocketing housing costs may be swaying Americans from having children, contributing to plunging birth rates in the country, data suggests.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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Most of the charges are for assaulting a federal law enforcement officer or failing to obey a lawful order, the district attorney’s office said in press releases.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
28 Sep. 2025
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Of course, everyone isn't innately open to failing or recovering from setbacks.—
Ashton Jackson,
CNBC,
28 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, Corey Feldman and Jenna Johnson, along with Baron Davis and Britt Stewart, were sent home after falling short in judges’ scores and viewer votes.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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After falling behind by five runs, the Mets scored five in the fifth, one inning before learning of a significant opportunity in front of them.—
Will Sammon,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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Splinter after splinter flopping onto the stone threshold, tsss, tsss, hissing like a nest of vipers.—
Zuzana Říhová,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
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This Colombian has been flopping in the US since 2003, has apparently not had a job since 2014.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
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For the pair of galaxies, the hot gas cloud of ionized gas, filled with free electrons and which stretches for millions of light years around the cluster is like tumbling into a vat of treacle that then begins to scour the gas on the leading edge of the infalling galaxies, ablating it.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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The boulders must have kept tumbling downstream because 500 years later, a Middle Kingdom Pharaoh (Senusret III/Khakaura) dug a new trench.—
Vanessa Taylor,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
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But instead of folding in the face of adversity, Penix rose to the occasion and put together arguably the best performance of his career, which has seemingly given him a huge confidence boost moving forward.—
Reice Shipley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Hayslett dropped the news during her recent stop on The Breakfast Club, folding her growing empire into a platform designed to amplify Black voices.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
30 Sep. 2025
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Since then, the administration has, while declining to publicly state its position as regime change, signaled clear interest in removing Maduro from power.—
Shelby Talcott,
semafor.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Energy demands around the world are rising, and with the increasing impacts of climate change and the declining efficiency of existing infrastructure, the situation is likely to worsen.—
Lauren Giella,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Cratering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cratering. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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