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- verb Present participle of
collapse .
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Examples
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When the welfare states begin collapsing, thing may very well evolve in that direction.
Matthew Yglesias » Americans Don’t Like “Socialism” But Many Democrats Do 2010
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Tan Zuoren, a literary editor and environmentalist who was creating an archive of children killed in collapsing schools, was arrested in March 2009 on charges of subverting state authority, according to Amnesty International.
Global Voices in English » China: A citizen campaign to reveal the forgotten dead 2009
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Friends and neighbors are collapsing from the stress when they can ill afford it.
Michelle Kraus: The Great American Credit Catastrophe Is Our Generation's 911 Michelle Kraus 2010
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Friends and neighbors are collapsing from the stress when they can ill afford it.
Michelle Kraus: The Great American Credit Catastrophe Is Our Generation's 911 Michelle Kraus 2010
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The four frame pic showing the red hotel collapsing is epic.
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The image of the Twin Towers collapsing is the sort of thing that excites terrorsist and givesthem an icon of victory as a gas attack would not.
Matthew Yglesias » Breaking News: Guerilla Tactics Work 2007
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As long as it is possible to collapse a building by excessive stresses (which it is), the notion that they were intentionally blown up as part of a government involvment in collapsing them is very absurd to me.
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He seems to look for the free lane to the quarterback too much, but if he can get more forceful with his hands, Spears would have better success in collapsing the pocket.
USATODAY.com 2005
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Bush's numbers on Iraq are just plain collapsing: For the first time since the war in Iraq began, more than half of the American public believes the fight there has not made the United States safer, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll ....
06/07/2005 2005
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So in collapsing the distinction between these two type of explanations and treating them as alternatives, Dawkins is committing a type error in explanation.
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