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Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2024
The trust financially imploded earlier this year with conditions so dire that its 29 buildings were pushed into receivership.
—Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
The Atlanta Falcons moved into a $1.6 billion downtown stadium built — with the help of hundreds of millions of public dollars — next to their old one, which was imploded after a 25-year life.
—David A. Lieb, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2023
But the firm expanded to flashy growth stocks like Carvana and Wayfair a few years back— a trade that imploded when the Federal Reserve began hiking rates last year.
—WSJ, 20 Dec. 2023
When China’s housing bubble burst, no other company imploded in as spectacular a fashion.
—Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
Worse, one of Hoxton’s star investments, Babylon Health, imploded in August 2023, two years after going public.
—Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
Gary Winnick, who rode the dot-com boom to briefly become the wealthiest businessman in Los Angeles before his star imploded in a scandal that came to represent the era’s excesses, has died.
—Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
An apartment building in Gaza imploding into rubble.
—Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
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in- entry 2 + -plode (as in explode)
1881, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a
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“Implode.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/implode. Accessed 9 Jan. 2024.
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