Collocations withcollapse
These are words often used in combination withcollapse.
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bridge collapse
Why did the bridge collapse?
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brink of collapse
That is a very important question, as in many cases the rural network is teetering on the brink of collapse.
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cardiovascular collapse
If severe may lead to cardiovascular collapse and cardiac arrest.
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catastrophic collapse
There would be no catastrophic collapse, just slow, inevitable decline.
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collapse of communism
The former communist countries shared the same type of economic system before the collapse of communism.
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collapse of confidence
The trouble is that a collapse of confidence internationally is not controllable.
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complete collapse
But it is no less incumbent upon us to exercise vigilance against the complete collapse of these spheres into each other.
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core collapse
The core collapse phase of a supernova is an extremely dense and energetic event.
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danger of collapse
The latter survey shed light on the fact that care-givers were often isolated from society, and suggested that their heavy burdens could put their families in danger of collapse.
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economic collapse
In human terms the economic collapse was devastating.
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eventual collapse
Had a good agreement been reached, it would have been far better than the eventual collapse.
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final collapse
Since the 1980s, much effort has been made to understand the geodynamic evolution of mountain belts, from the convergent phase to their final collapse.
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financial collapse
Despite this, the real impact of state pension schemes was undermined by the system's financial collapse.
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gravitational collapse
They are small in the early universe, and large in gravitational collapse.
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imminent collapse
By the late 1970s the imminent collapse of the henequen industry made it clear that the state had to diversify its economic activities.
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near collapse
The demolition of the adjacent building in the spring of 1835 brought the house to a state of near collapse, hence the scaffolding in the present engraving.
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on the verge of collapse
Another panelist observed that many people see globalization as a form of tyranny, and as such, may be on the verge of collapse.
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partial collapse
It might have been that our industries which are now suffering from partial collapse would have experienced a temporary recovery.
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societal collapse
Early modern people lived too close to the abyss of political and societal collapse to tolerate much dissent.
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structural collapse
Protein folding mediated by solvation : water expulsion and formation of the hydrophobic core occur after the structural collapse.
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subsequent collapse
An 18-gauge needle is used with subsequent collapse of the cranial bones, the endpoint for this procedure.
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sudden collapse
The shockwave formed by this sudden collapse causes the rest of the star to explode in a supernova.
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total collapse
From here it is but a short step to the total collapse of his argument: maybe money does affect science, but so what?
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ultimate collapse
The ultimate collapse of the analogy is, in fact, suggestive in that it reveals a startling reciprocity between reference and referent, signifier and signified.
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virtual collapse
From the mid-1970s, the country experienced economic instability and decline, the virtual collapse of its urban industries and rising poverty and unemployment.
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