crisis
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Over the next few days, questions mounted for Channel 4 over its handling of the crisis.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
But the tank that is most in crisis has valves that are broken and “gummed up,” and so the stabilizing chemical can’t be added to the explosive chemical, Covey said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Following the financial crisis, legislators designed the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act to stimulate public markets.
From Barron's • 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
Then, the modern age was an age of restoration, after a lengthy period of catastrophe, crisis and collapse.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing crisis
"The Civil Rights Movement"
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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