debacle
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The debacle was a driving force in the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which tightened regulations over governance, accounting and related-party transactions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
As Saturday afternoon turned into Saturday night, I felt like I was detoxing from the Friday night debacle back in D.C. — the rescheduled White House correspondents’ dinner.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
He was promoted to the role of senior team manager just a few months later after Regragui resigned in the aftermath of the senior African Nations Cup debacle.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
To their credit, after the debacle, members of the U.S. team didn’t complain about anything being rigged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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
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
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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