crisis
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Don’t allow a phony crisis to pre-empt a real solution in the end.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Bristol families are increasingly turning to second-hand children's clothing as the cost of living crisis puts growing pressure on budgets, with one shop seeing demand surge.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
So we really deliberately and really defiantly tried to embrace the identity crisis of the character in how we told the story.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
The crisis we face is not a lack of information; it is a profound detachment from reality.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026
Pope Benedict XVI was the first to predict the crisis in the global financial system…Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti said.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing crisis
"The Civil Rights Movement"
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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