crisis
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“We have a tank that is actively in crisis, for lack of a better word,” Incident Commander Craig Covey said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
During the 2007-08 global financial crisis, a spike in oil collided with “a leveraged financial system already stressed from housing and wholesale funding pressure,” the Rapidan team said.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
Next week's India-Africa Forum Summit has been cancelled due to the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
He didn’t mention Ben Bernanke, the chair he actually served under for all five of his years as a governor, including during the 2008-09 financial crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
By then, she was in the midst of a full-blown crisis.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Vocabulary lists containing crisis
"The Civil Rights Movement"
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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