debris field

collocation in English

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debris
noun[U]
uk
/ˈdeb.riː/us
/dəˈbriː/
broken or torn pieces of ...
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field
noun
uk
/fiːld/us
/fiːld/
an area of land, used for growing crops or keeping animals, usually surrounded by ...
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(Definition ofdebrisandfieldfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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She spacewalks to release the cables, succeeding just as thedebrisfieldcompletes its orbit and destroys the station.
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The 4-inch fire-control director lies in the westerndebrisfield.
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A semi-exception is the above-mentioned orbit-16 image of a flood-drivendebrisfieldextending several miles out to sea.
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To date, thisdebrisfieldhas never been fully explored or documented by professionals, but may be viewable from the surface on a magnetometer.
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Over a series of seven dives by each submersible, thedebrisfieldwas progressively searched.
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Behind every lyric is adebrisfieldof emotional wreckage--betrayal, miscarriage, broken engagement.
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The other three funnels were found in thedebrisfield(located off the stern).
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The patch does not appear as a continuousdebrisfield.
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The aircraft left adebrisfield16 km (10 mi) long.
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Boutsen was untouched, but thedebrisfieldof hurled parts and bodywork was spread over.
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More than one thousand images revealed adebrisfieldwith the fallen mast, the ships copper-sheathed lower hull, and a flat-roofed deckhouse.
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Kowalski estimates they have 90 minutes before thedebrisfieldcompletes an orbit and threatens them again.
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Rickett said they found a touchdown point five miles (8 km) from thedebrisfieldwhere the sand had crystallized, possibly from the heat.
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The submarine surfaced amid thedebrisfieldand after a brief exchange of gunfire with the ship's defensive armament, collected the survivors on the submarine's deck.
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Thedebrisfieldis marked by buoys.
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A serious storm in 2004 broke the ship in two, and her bow now lists at a 45 degree angle, while her midships have become adebrisfield.
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The only part of the aircraft that was not destroyed was the aft passenger compartment, which rolled to a stop at the far end of thedebrisfield.
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The left wing hit a tree and then the aircraft had proceeded to break up before sliding down a hill, distributing the wreckage over adebrisfield846m in length.
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He was descending the mountain at the time of the fall and reportedly slid 1,000 feet out of control, coming to rest amid a largedebrisfield.
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