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Recent Examples of crumble Her idyllic life with her husband Aitor (Roberto Álamo) and their teenage son Sebas (Teo Soler) begins to crumble when Félix is released from prison, coinciding with a new wave of crimes that eerily mirror the murders committed 25 years ago. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025 Passersby stared as billows of smoke rose into the air above the White House as part of the home shared by the United States president and his family crumbled to the ground. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025 The strain that data centers add to our crumbling infrastructure is one of the major ones. Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025 The dilapidated wooden trim and sagging porticos were spruced up a few years ago after preservationists complained to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, but the upstairs windows reveal glimpses of peeling paint, crumbling plaster, and collapsing ceilings inside. Kim Velsey, Curbed, 20 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crumble
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Verb
  • Instead, the property has passed hands from private owner to private owner, hidden from view off a lonely winding road, slowly deteriorating over the years.
    Amanda Rosa October 23, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Grid operators are warning of steep increases in electricity demand for the first time in decades, leading utilities to race to expand capacity by reviving plans for natural-gas plants or building new ones, and, in some regions, even extending the life of deteriorating coal facilities.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The fouling problem worsens in warm climates, where biological activity peaks year-round.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • As the lamprey crisis worsened, various chemical companies sent compounds to the lab, which was searching for a panacea.
    Katie Thornton, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This quickly descended into hilarity when the coaches further ambushed their unwilling challengers with a full-court press for the entire 12 minutes.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In a 20-second black and white video of the strike posted to X, a small boat can be seen apparently sitting motionless on the water when a long thin projectile descends on it, triggering an explosion.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Contract options exercised for 4 The club exercised contract options on Stephen Afrifa, Zorhan Bassong, Jansen Miller and John Pulskamp, while declining options for Tim Leibold, Nemanja Radoja, Ryan Schewe, Shelton and Mason Toye.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
  • However, her cousin the followed up, and the OP wrote back declining the invite.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Crumble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crumble. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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