debacle
Example Sentences
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Italian football stands on the brink of a Champions League "debacle" - with the prospect of no Serie A clubs competing in this season's last 16.
From BBC
With the city facing multiple lawsuits over the billing debacle, Clark helped oversee a friendly class-action lawsuit against the city, the judge found.
From Los Angeles Times
Over the following months, he ousted national security adviser Mike Waltz, an architect of the maritime ambitions, because of an unrelated debacle.
If there were any event in figure skating that was going to descend into a judging debacle, it was always going to be ice dance.
A judge recently acknowledged there was a mistake and ordered their release, but the debacle has left Torres, a hospitality worker, devastated.
From Barron's
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