debacle
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That would be a mess, and probably not a foreign debacle we only read about.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The debacle had begun when Moore threw an interception on the very first play from scrimmage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
All this, however, has been overshadowed by a transfer deadline day that ended as nothing short of a debacle.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
“I was figuring it out in real time,” she told People of the naming debacle in 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Of course there was the cellar debacle, but Grandma Star also sends her books about Native history and culture and let slip that Mom used a tribal scholarship for grad school.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Perhaps the biggest humiliation — at least until the recent twin debacles of the Freedom 250 implosion and the Kennedy Center ruling — was the Super Bowl halftime show.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026
As the many debacles over inheritances show, it can often get worse as we get older.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 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
I do not know what you think, but it appears to me that he exaggerates enormously the influence of debacles or slips and new surface of soil being exposed for the reception of wind-blown seeds.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
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