crisis
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“It determines who gets access to beds, it determines how we are able to respond to the crisis on our streets.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Faced with its second energy crisis in four years, you would think countries would be doing everything in their power to have proper provisions for winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Sánchez had previously told parliament that there was "no information that conveyed the magnitude" of the "crisis we were going to suffer" on the last two days of July.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The central bank told MarketWatch the move will make it more easily tradable in a crisis.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
How does the Cuban missile crisis compare with twenty-first-century threats such as terrorism, climate change, and pandemic disease?
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Hydroxyurea, a drug that stimulates production of fetal hemoglobin, has been shown to reduce pain crises and other complications—but it isn’t a cure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Australia has recently introduced early warning systems for marine crises - this gives time for financial relief for fisheries to be established, relocation of crucial species and increased coral monitoring.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The program trains students from a range of disciplines to develop strategies for addressing resource scarcity, climate change, and extreme weather events, as well as food, water, and energy crises.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
"Lebanon is at the crossroads of a region that has been full of crises for thousands of years."
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
I realize now that under different circumstances that conversation might have been one of the crises of my life.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Vocabulary lists containing crisis
"The Civil Rights Movement"
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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