implosion
noun
Kenneth Keniston 
Examples of implosion in a Sentence
Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
When the clock strikes midnight on Jan. 1, Hollywood will close the book on arguably the most tumultuous 12 months in a generation, with the town roiled by devastating strikes, the implosion of the superhero movie and deep divisions on everything from AI to Israel.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
Oyster’s Tempo cooler sandwiches fumed silica panels between flat aluminum walls to resist implosion from the vacuum chamber.
—Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
The spectacular implosion of FTX last November set off a chain reaction that led to the collapse of other crypto firms.
—David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
And on Thursday morning, the Coast Guard found debris consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the submersible.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
In perhaps the highest-profile implosion, WeWork’s filed for bankruptcy and shed dozens of leases in New York City alone.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
Humiliated Dodgers swept into next season Hernández: Playoff implosion of Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman a bad omen for Dodgers’ future
Clayton Kershaw ‘not sure’ about what comes next in his Dodgers future
Why did Dave Roberts leave Lance Lynn in the game?
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
The mutiny inside OpenAI over the firing and un-firing of chief executive Sam Altman, and the implosion of X under owner Elon Musk, are not just Silicon Valley soap operas.
—Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
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Word History
in- entry 2 + -plosion (as in explosion)
1877, in the meaning defined at sense 3
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