downfall
Example Sentences
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You can’t even place the downfall solely on the Los Angeles Unified School District, whose high schools compete in the City Section.
From Los Angeles Times
Brook has under-performed on this tour, regularly engineering his own downfall.
From BBC
The soggy weather is expected to continue through Tuesday with the heaviest downfalls tapering off by midday Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
From Los Angeles Times
Freixe’s downfall started when he recommended promoting a marketing executive from his old team to a job under Presley, people familiar with the matter said.
The scandal shook Malaysian politics, contributing to the 2018 downfall of the ruling coalition that had governed since independence in 1957, and led to the convictions of two former Goldman bankers.
From Barron's
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