crisis
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The show needs to be having an identity crisis.
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
Kids Stuff also works with referral organisations helping families in crisis, including women escaping domestic abuse and refugees.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
In past unemployment spikes—like the Dot-com bubble in the early 2000s and the global financial crisis between 2007 and 2008—Medicaid absorbed fallout and grew by more than 20%, Barclays notes.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
They both did anticipate, albeit from decidedly different perspectives, the looming sectional crisis between North and South that their own partnership stretched across.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing crisis
"The Civil Rights Movement"
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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