disastrous
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The next day, the City Journal, published by the influential and conservative Manhattan Institute, ran an opinion essay headlined “George Mason University’s Disastrous President.”
From Salon • Jul. 14, 2025
Disastrous, he adds, because "the US has notoriously terrible crime data".
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024
Disastrous flooding struck areas across Nuristan in 2021.
From Scientific American • Apr. 26, 2023
Disastrous tumbles and physical danger are so much a part of theater history that they’ve become treasured backstage lore instead of causes for concern.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2022
In 1882 he published a small book, already referred to, entitled: "England's Coercive Opium Policy and Its Disastrous Results in China and India."
From The Opium Monopoly by La Motte, Ellen Newbold
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