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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a double collapse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where two collapses occur simultaneously or in succession, often in a metaphorical or literal context.
Example: "The building experienced a double collapse, first in the east wing and then in the west wing shortly after."
Alternatives: "a dual failure" or "twofold breakdown".
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There is also speculation that only one of the two towers was covered, as a double collapse was considered so unlikely.As long as the leading firms have managed their risk properly, the industry should be able to absorb this hit, notwithstanding a few collapses of small firms.
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During the season of her double collapse in Ouro Prêto, she'd welcomed a "stupendous thunderstorm" that descended with Biblical force on the town, she'd written to Methfessel, hoping "I might get struck by lightning — a dramatic demise, don't you think — & so good for book-sales".
Eddie Antar, the Eddie of Crazy Eddie, spent almost seven years in prison, before trying a comeback that didn't work out, thus enabling him to accomplish the rare but not unknown Double Collapse.
Bishop sometimes wished, as she'd written to Methfessel after her double collapse in Ouro Prêto, that she could be more like other writers she knew, who "drink worse than I do, at least badly & all the time, and don't seem to have any regrets or shame — just write poems about it".
These contigs totalled 133,617 bp in length and corresponded to the large single copy (88,300 bp), small single copy (18,888 bp) and a double-coverage, collapsed consensus of the inverted repeat regions (26,429).
Syria's economy, which has survived largely thanks to high oil prices, faces a double plunge from collapsing crude reserves and world prices.
In the presence of Commutation, a double implication pair collapses into single implication →.
In a process aided by topoisomerases [ 7- 9], BLM catalyses the convergent migration of a double Holliday junction (dHJ), collapsing it into a hemicatenane [ 10].
Orr was in the fairway, but then collapsed, taking a double bogey.
If inflation reverts to last year's scary rate, you will probably get a double whammy, with stock prices collapsing in won terms in Seoul at the same time that each won is worth less to a U.S. dollar investor.
Under threat of a double envelopment, the Persian army collapsed and fled, with many dying in the desert of thirst or from water poisoning.
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