disastrous
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In 2019, competing documentaries about the disastrous Fyre Festival took different approaches to paying its disgraced organizer, Billy McFarland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
You don’t need me to tell you a prolonged work stoppage would be disastrous for a sport that finally got itself some momentum in the past half decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Egged on by demagogues, Thucydides narrates, Athens embarked on a war of choice—the Sicilian expedition, the disastrous failure of which contributed to Athens’s eventual defeat in the Peloponnesian War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Senne Lammens: Made a major early error that could have had disastrous consequences but the Belgian recovered to make the save from Dominic Solanke.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
We go to family parties not to bask in each other's presence but to whisper among ourselves about tacky dresses, botched plastic surgery, and disastrous haircuts and highlights.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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