debacle
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OpenAI has already had a Ben & Jerry’s debacle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
"This Safa travel & visa debacle is embarrassing & grossly unfair towards the players & coaching staff," McKenzie also wrote on X.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
The "dirty fuel" debacle sparked fury, especially among transport workers.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
Without a written agreement, this could be just the start of the child-support debacle, not the end of it.
From MarketWatch ● May 16, 2026
He imagined Trina out there somewhere, being held by the bonfire people, probably even crazier with another day gone and the debacle of the forest fire.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
As the many debacles over inheritances show, it can often get worse as we get older.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
Calling such presidential debacles someone’s “Katrina” has been overdone.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
Spy agencies saw profound implications in the recent debacles, far beyond public humiliation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
The debacles “may have repercussions on the financial system more broadly,” warns junk bond guru Marty Fridson, chief executive officer of FridsonVision High Yield Strategy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
He hung with unqualified joy on the imagined ruins of imaginary disaster, and took equal pleasure in the actual debacles of life as it was lived about him.
From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson
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