meltdowns

noun

plural of meltdown
1
as in anxieties

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as in disasters

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for meltdowns
  1. breakdowns
  2. disasters
  3. nervous breakdowns
  4. collapses
  5. alarms
  6. bloodbaths
  7. calamities
  8. catastrophes
Noun
  • Check out our breakdowns for each Bengals game, final season record predictions and playoff outlook RIGHT HERE.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Moving beyond a stigma around discussing marital breakdowns, the content provides a space for the creators to heal, and for their followers to relate and reflect on their own experiences and emotions.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of breakdowns
Noun
  • Getting an accurate count of immigrants of various statuses is useful when assigning resources for public health emergencies or natural or human-made disasters.
    — Terry Tang, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The chapter also examines military disasters caused not by geography but by failures of leadership, organization, discipline, and judgment.
    — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of disasters
Noun
  • Some people in Caracas and surrounding areas suffered nervous breakdowns following the events of Wednesday afternoon, compounded by warnings that their homes might collapse.
    — Gustavo Ocando Alex, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026
Definition of nervous breakdowns
Noun
  • Building collapses are a recurring hazard in parts of India during the June-to-September monsoon season, when heavy or prolonged rain can weaken older structures.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Not necessarily from the back-breaking collapses perspective, but from the overall record and playoff finish perspective.
    — Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of collapses
Noun
  • The alarms are designed to alert other firefighters when a member is motionless or in distress.
    — Cindy Hsu, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026
  • This matters to the global economy The influences of El Niño should raise global alarms for economies as well.
    — Steven Paton, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of alarms
Noun
  • Amid the bloodbaths and whimsy, however, Eddie is evolving into someone new.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Your Night Manager and Something Very Bad characters both made big decisions that led to bloodbaths.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
Definition of bloodbaths
Noun
  • To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.
    — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Indeed, conflict and calamities are major factors in financial repression.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of calamities
Noun
  • That didn’t stop catastrophes like the 2018 fire in the Sierra foothills that destroyed the town of Paradise and killed 85.
    — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Experts warn that catastrophes like this are likely to happen again because rising temperatures in the Himalayas, which are warming faster than the global average, destabilize the region's 60,000 glaciers and trigger more avalanches.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of catastrophes
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