crisis
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McKinney has focused his campaign on lessening the city’s homelessness crisis by leveraging people into treatment, tackling quality-of-life crimes, and reducing the city’s out-of-control legal costs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
El-Sayed connects his belief to a national crisis of faith embodied in Washington: “We don’t have faith in our future; we don’t have faith that we can actually fix things.”
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
The industry faced a crisis during the coronavirus pandemic, when the government ordered a mass cull of mink after a mutated strain of Covid-19 was found in the animals.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
That model was shattered in 2008-09, during the financial crisis, Butler said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
“I went through all the same crisis training as you. I know not to fall apart.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
October has witnessed several crises: faltering confidence in the sustainability of the artificial-intelligence boom and chaos in the French bond market are chief among them.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Security Minister Dan Jarvis MP said the advice will ensure emergency services can prioritise people who need more support during crises, and hopes it will "improve our resilience as a nation".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Lincicome could find no precedent in the prior 80 years for taking such stakes in healthy companies outside of crises or war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
In Yemen, the conflict has caused what the United Nations calls one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, leaving most of the nation's population dependent on aid.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Unable to consult with his wife, Minnie, who had a better head for these kinds of crises, he nervously went to the courthouse.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Vocabulary lists containing crisis
"The Civil Rights Movement"
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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