as in debris
the portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyed
clearing the rubble after the earthquake
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Recent Examples of rubble
Families and kids walked over the rubble, carrying bags of groceries and jugs of water.
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Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 20 Mar. 2025
Nearby, her husband owned three sober-living facilities (one burned; the other two are now uninhabitable, surrounded by rubble).
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2025
Palestinians carry a body pulled from the rubble of the Qrayqea family house, destroyed in Israeli strikes at dawn in the Shujaiya district in eastern Gaza City.
—NBC News, 18 Mar. 2025
Mississippi and Missouri saw entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
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Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 20 Mar. 2025
Nearby, her husband owned three sober-living facilities (one burned; the other two are now uninhabitable, surrounded by rubble).
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2025
Palestinians carry a body pulled from the rubble of the Qrayqea family house, destroyed in Israeli strikes at dawn in the Shujaiya district in eastern Gaza City.
—NBC News, 18 Mar. 2025
Mississippi and Missouri saw entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
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“Rubble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rubble. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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