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Barabbas endures a life of survivor’s guilt and misery following his pardon, toiling away in underground mines, Andor-style, for 20 years before surviving a cave-in and becoming a gladiator.
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James Grebey, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
The mining activities were also in violation of the law because no environmental impact assessment had been done, and the tunnels were described as weak and on the brink of cave-in.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2024
Today's Featured Photo Crews are at work in the Phoenix Hill neighborhood after a sewer cave-in left a massive hole on Campbell Street.
—Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 16 July 2024
Not long after, she’s informed that her father has been killed in a mine cave-in, prompting her return to her desert hometown with the symbolically less-than-subtle name of Creation.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2024
Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputies and paramedics responded to the cave-in around 3:16 p.m at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Beach, roughly 7 miles north of Fort Lauderdale
Witnesses told NBC6 the children were digging a hole when the ground gave away, trapping them beneath the surface.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2024
Blame the Great Depression, the effects of World War II, a 1968 market fire and a 1980s cave-in of midtown Baltimore property values.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2024
Paulding Country Fire & Rescue said that the laborer fell into the trench, caused by a cave-in, early Friday afternoon.
—Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2024
Authorities have not said what caused the cave-in, but the region is prone to landslides, earthquakes and floods.
—Reuters, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2023
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James Grebey, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
The mining activities were also in violation of the law because no environmental impact assessment had been done, and the tunnels were described as weak and on the brink of cave-in.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2024
Today's Featured Photo Crews are at work in the Phoenix Hill neighborhood after a sewer cave-in left a massive hole on Campbell Street.
—Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 16 July 2024
Not long after, she’s informed that her father has been killed in a mine cave-in, prompting her return to her desert hometown with the symbolically less-than-subtle name of Creation.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2024
Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputies and paramedics responded to the cave-in around 3:16 p.m at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Beach, roughly 7 miles north of Fort Lauderdale
Witnesses told NBC6 the children were digging a hole when the ground gave away, trapping them beneath the surface.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2024
Blame the Great Depression, the effects of World War II, a 1968 market fire and a 1980s cave-in of midtown Baltimore property values.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2024
Paulding Country Fire & Rescue said that the laborer fell into the trench, caused by a cave-in, early Friday afternoon.
—Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2024
Authorities have not said what caused the cave-in, but the region is prone to landslides, earthquakes and floods.
—Reuters, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2023
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“Cave-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cave-in. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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