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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a rubble" is not correct in standard written English.
The word "rubble" is an uncountable noun, so it should not be preceded by the article "a."
Example: "After the earthquake, the city was left in a state of rubble."
Alternatives: "the rubble" or "rubble debris".
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A rubble mound jetty and a caisson jetty are considered as design alternatives for comparison.
Normally, he said, a rubble plan is developed within a month of a major disaster.
The ground underfoot was a rubble of granite boulders and chunks of sharp limestone karst.
"It is a rubble heap, a charnel house, a breeding ground of pestilence and hate".
Language is burnt back to a rubble of grunts and fillers: uh-uh, OK, yeah.
Huddled behind a rubble barricade, I felt as foolish and professionally humiliated as I felt frightened.
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A once-bustling neighborhood became a rubble-strewn urban prairie.
"It was a rubble-strewn lot, filled with cars, garbage".
Thomasius took the writer to a rubble-conversion plant near the Zoo, built in 1949.
The mining process changed the land from a lush island paradise to a rubble-strewn atoll.
Once a teeming suburb of 250,000 people, Darayya is now a rubble-strewn shell.
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