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Example sentences for: collapse

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When the controls were put on, many Western analysts predicted disaster: a collapse of the economy, hyperinflation, rampant black markets.
A second front-page story says the White House is concerned, but thinks it unlikely, that Japan's economy could collapse the way Thailand's did.
Those priorities included China, missile defense, the collapse of the Middle East peace process, and the Persian Gulf.
After the collapse of the apartheid state-security apparatus, worldwide crime syndicates from Colombia, Nigeria, and Thailand set up operations in South Africa.
(See Jacob Weisberg's "The Conservative Collapse."