How to Use implosion in a Sentence

implosion

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  • Evan describes the implosion in the back of the Rangers’ bullpen.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2023
  • That was less than the $2.3 billion pulled in the week that followed FTX's implosion.
    — Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Could actions that led to the Titan implosion be a crime?
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 29 June 2023
  • Some may look on this implosion with a sense of relief.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023
  • The agencies involved are still looking for clues as to what could've caused the sub's implosion this week.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023
  • Its shares plunged earlier this week, raising the specter of a third major US bank implosion in days.
    — Ellen Francis, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But not everyone shares the desire to stay loyal to the bank after its implosion.
    — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
  • More about the Titan vessel Follow our live blog for the latest updates as focus turns to finding the cause of the implosion.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 23 June 2023
  • For a story about the messy implosion of two lives, there’s a stultifying neatness to Days of Wine and Roses.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The impact of the firm’s implosion was immediate and sweeping.
    — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 9 June 2023
  • In this case, Gomes believes America would see something of a Liz Truss-like implosion.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2024
  • But in the Bahamas, the implosion has meant not just lost fortunes but lost confidence in a dream of financial acclaim.
    — Tim Craig, Drew Harwell, Nitasha Tiku, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Repeated bullpen implosions tend to make a manager’s hair turn gray, so be sure to check back on David Ross and Pedro Grifol at the end of the season.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2023
  • Initially, the market believed the FTX implosion was the result of an old-fashioned bank run on the exchange's reserves.
    — Riley Gutiérrez McDermid, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2022
  • But in a second major scoop that led to FTX’s implosion, Allison learned that the crucial deal would not happen.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The movie will follow the events that took place before, during, and after the Titan’s implosion, Deadline reports.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 29 Sep. 2023
  • There are still many unanswered questions about the bank's implosion including what, if anything, could have been done to prevent it.
    — From Cnn's Krystal Hur, Nicole Goodkind, Alicia Wallace, Bryan Mena, Elisabeth Buchwald and Anna Bahney, CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
  • New ticket holders for the new digs want new hope, and only an implosion of the current locker room will deliver that.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
  • One question that seems resolved is when the implosion likely happened.
    — Patrick Whittle and Jennifer McDermott, ajc, 24 June 2023
  • The domino theory had the Big 12 being one of the beneficiaries of a Pac-12 implosion.
    — Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The second implosion came in March, when heavy winter rains saturated the greenbelt and the concrete lid couldn’t handle the weight of the soggy soil and towering pines.
    — Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Twitter’s implosion isn’t the only astonishing story in the tech world this week.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The abrupt implosion of the country's 16th-largest bank last week resulted in swift finger-pointing in Washington.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Then the usual implosion and exhaustion, not to mention the changing cultural tides, fractured the band.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Those proposals need to be fundamentally rethought in the wake of FTX’s implosion.
    — Aaron Klein, Time, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The official told The Times that crews would collect the Titan’s wreckage in an effort to reconstruct the vessel’s final hours and determine what led to the implosion.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
  • The couple has two seasons of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days behind them, both of which nearly ended in the implosion of their relationship.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2023
  • If not for multiple late-game implosions over the weekend, the Beavers almost surely would be unanimously ranked, likely among the top 20.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The token’s implosion kicked off a domino effect across crypto markets.
    — Allyson Versprille, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023
  • And all this refocusing on implosion was going to require a lot of calculations to make sure the lab was selecting the right design.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2023

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