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  • noun Plural form of collapse.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collapse.

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Examples

  • Without this belief, the word collapses, meaningless.

    PopMatters 2009

  • (Imagine the patient stumbles into the ER and collapses from a heart attack: should we amend the statute so that you spend, maybe, 20 minutes trying to verify ability to pay before trying to resuscitate the guy? absolutely not!)

    The Volokh Conspiracy » An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen 2010

  • I'd hate to have to rewrite the Friedman and Schwartz book where the role Friedman and Schwartz assigned to monetary collapses is assigned instead to productivity shocks.

    Outstanding Book, Standout Price, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Once the batter is put into the tins, baked, and taken out of the oven, the center of the muffin collapses upon cooling.

    PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE MUFFINS Melissa 2008

  • Once the batter is put into the tins, baked, and taken out of the oven, the center of the muffin collapses upon cooling.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Melissa 2008

  • Hayate goes off to save Nagi but eventually collapses from the cold (as he lent his only coat to Nagi).

    Hayate No Gotoku! « Undercover 2007

  • But all the hundreds of thousands of seabirds that throng that island, and the rest of the Scottish coastline, are facing potential disaster as the food chain collapses under the influence of overfishing and warming seas.

    Brian Ruckley · A Blog Action Day Post 2007

  • The Bush/Cheney/McCain administration has now infected the world with its greed and credit virus and despite the attempt at international cooperation ~ the short list of countries facing near-term collapses in credit markets is growing.

    CREDIT CRISIS SPREADS WORLDWIDE AS STOCKS CRUMBLE 2008

  • Lost world: Everyone is run over by a truck, the mountain collapses, and the world never finds out.

    How to Tell a Novel's Genre 2006

  • It is intense … the internal landscape is violent upheaval … the skin collapses as a boundary … there is physical immersion in each other but with no experience of 'each other' as separate entities.

    Latex Conquers All 2005

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