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fold up







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implode
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The studios would rent for about $1,500 a month and weren’t that small, he said, given modular furniture—beds that fold up, closets that pop out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

“When I’m at a restaurant, I will fold up the chopstick wrapper and build a little fort with the plates and chopsticks and, like, make stuff in my hands,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024

But if that happens just in time for the genre to fold up for good, what was the point of all this frustration?

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2024

Diagonal bracing in walls is necessary so they don’t rack and fold up like dominoes.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2023

My trips up and down the stairs continued until my knees threatened to fold up and quit, bringing dishes down, carrying more delicacies and hot drinks up.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson