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New York — In the summer of 2008, weeks before the investment bank Lehman Brothers imploded, oil prices skyrocketed to nearly $150 a barrel.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2026 -
That idealized story is based on real change in a region that suffered extraordinary structural decline when a century of dependence on heavy industry imploded in the 1970s.—
Christopher Briem,
The Conversation,
25 Mar. 2026
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If the dinosaurs and woolly mammoths that once roamed the Earth had since crumbled into dust, then what hope was there for humanity?—
Kathryn Hughes,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Within a short time of the fire, the walls were left burnt and crumbled.—
CBS Chicago Team,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Self-destructed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-destructed. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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