downfall

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Power: The Downfall Of Huw Edwards, focuses on how a young vulnerable man, played by Osian Morgan, came into contact with one of the most powerful figures in television.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Downfall: It all began to unravel as allegations of fraud piled up.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

Geoffrey Kabaservice is vice president of political studies at the Niskanen Center and author of “Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2022

"More than anything else, the Nazis were a nationalist protest movement against globalization," notes Benjamin Carter Hett in "The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and The Downfall of the Weimar Republic."

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2022

Then he turned to see Bogrod shaking his head in bewilderment: The Thief’s Downfall seemed to have lifted the Imperius Curse.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling