debacle
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Fifa president Gianni Infantino insists he has the backing of the "vast, vast majority" of world football, as he laughed off questions about whether he had considered resigning over the World Cup sell-off debacle.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Plus, inside the California bullet-train debacle, how a disappearing Rio Grande is reshaping the Southwest, and why the U.S. wants to deploy floating nuclear reactors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
This debacle over your future is a first-world embarrassment of riches.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
The Rams had mostly had their fill of Philadelphia after losing an NFC divisional game here in 2024 and last year’s debacle that ended with the blocked field goal and touchdown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
John Andre was captured while attempting to serve as a British spy in league with Benedict Arnold to produce a major strategic debacle on the Hudson River at West Point.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Expert input is essential to policymaking—but avoiding policy debacles means understanding the experts’ proper role.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
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 Allen Wilson Porterfield
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