crisis
Example Sentences
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The crisis comes when people stop believing this will be repaid in real money.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
The film moves beyond the climate crisis to the increase in climate refugees, which Fox underscores by starting with Americans, including victims of the Paradise blaze, before journeying around the globe.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
His campaign didn’t survive, but those problems—tens of thousands of people without housing, costs crunching millions of people with housing, and lagging crisis response—are real.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
And for the NCAA, the possibility of Sorsby evading consequences is an existential crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
They didn’t have much to spare, either, but it was still good to know there was someone we could call upon in a crisis.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Vocabulary lists containing crisis
"The Civil Rights Movement"
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Calamity, Catastrophe, and Crisis: Disaster Words
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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