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debacle

[day-, -bak-uhl, duh-, dee-bah-kuhl] / deɪ-, -ˈbæk əl, də-, diˈbɑ kəl /


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While one Barron’s writer escaped Thursday’s tech debacle, her family didn’t.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

Since the entire brand of America’s foremost tastemaker is to discern the good things from tackiness, the debacle has bewildered longtime fans.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

Sat next to him at Old Trafford to watch the Bournemouth debacle unfold was chief executive Omar Berrada, who worked with Wilcox at Manchester City.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Afterward both coach and quarterback chivalrously protected each other by taking responsibility for the debacle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

As Fischer’s losses and draws mounted, it became clear that he was having the most disastrous tournament of his adult career, perhaps even worse than his Buenos Aires debacle.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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 Allen Wilson Porterfield


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