meltdowns

noun

plural of meltdown
1
as in anxieties

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2
as in disasters

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for meltdowns
  1. breakdowns
  2. disasters
  3. nervous breakdowns
  4. collapses
  5. alarms
  6. bloodbaths
  7. calamities
  8. catastrophes
Noun
  • Home warranty alternatives A home warranty is not your only option to cover unexpected appliance and home system breakdowns.
    — Alora Bopray, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Past examples include Kyle Hamilton making three interceptions in his first practice and breakdowns of where Manti Te’o fit into the depth chart on opening day.
    — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of breakdowns
Noun
  • The rescue mission had been suspended earlier due to the fear of secondary disasters caused by the overflowing barrier lake upstream of the town.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Information about major disasters is typically released with a delay and without personal stories of victims.
    — Niranjan Shrestha, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of disasters
Noun
  • Some people in Caracas and surrounding areas suffered nervous breakdowns following the events of Wednesday afternoon, compounded by warnings that their homes might collapse.
    — Gustavo Ocando Alex, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026
Definition of nervous breakdowns
Noun
  • In addition to regions in South Asia, experts said the Andes Mountains in South America stand out as at risk for similar events involving landslides and glacier collapses in the future.
    — Megan Fahrney, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Gold mining expands despite safety risks Artisanal mine collapses are common in Central African Republic, where thousands of people work in small-scale mining, often with little protection.
    — Jean Fernand Koena, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of collapses
Noun
  • The ruling, the first of its kind under Hong Kong’s Societies Ordinance, has raised alarms over freedom of association as authorities continue tightening controls after the 2019 democracy protests.
    — Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Summer generally offers reliable flying conditions, but also the year’s earliest alarms and largest crowds.
    — Scott Campbell, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of alarms
Noun
  • Your Night Manager and Something Very Bad characters both made big decisions that led to bloodbaths.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
  • Naturally, the theft of the ghost shirt by the stooges in the employ of Roy Lee is accompanied by many deceased bodies — the first of the many bloodbaths in Americana, which has a distressingly expedient approach to on-screen carnage.
    — Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
Definition of bloodbaths
Noun
  • To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.
    — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Indeed, conflict and calamities are major factors in financial repression.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of calamities
Noun
  • That didn’t stop catastrophes like the 2018 fire in the Sierra foothills that destroyed the town of Paradise and killed 85.
    — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Experts warn that catastrophes like this are likely to happen again because rising temperatures in the Himalayas, which are warming faster than the global average, destabilize the region's 60,000 glaciers and trigger more avalanches.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of catastrophes
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