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Britain suffered its worst air systems failure in years in 2023, with more than 700,000 passengers affected after hundreds of flights were delayed or cancelled.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

The oppressive moisture in Southern California’s air this week has felt more like Florida and the Gulf Coast, with many remarking that this is the worst, most powerful humidity they’ve ever felt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The Rams suffered the worst Super Bowl hangover in NFL history, and Coen returned to Kentucky before becoming the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ offensive coordinator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

September is historically the worst month of the year for stocks, but seasonal patterns aren’t the only concern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The words it held were both a relief and the worst thing he could possibly imagine.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

Those missing pieces effected Elliott perhaps more than anyone, and he finished with career worsts of 979 yards and eight total touchdowns.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

His .162 batting average, .237 on-base percentage and .276 slugging percentage were all league-wide worsts among players who batted at least 200 times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2017

Now they will try to fix a defense that set franchise worsts for points, yards and yards rushing allowed in a single season in 2016.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 27, 2017

He finished with a .229 batting average and .616 OPS, both career worsts.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2016

It seems like a long list of worsts.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon

He often mixed silk and wool or silk and linen for a softer alternative to the heavy, stiff gabardines and worsted wools that were typical for men’s suits and jackets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025

They had put chairs and pillows into it, and several worsted suits.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2018

Rolls upon rolls of flannel, worsted wool and cashmere are stacked in a space the size of a football field.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2017

It's made at Alfred Brown worsted mills, a century-old family business in Bramley in Leeds.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2016

He said he would not, at present, allow for expenditure on any dresses of fine stuffs, but rather recommended she brood on worsted and prunella twill.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

There was that within him, however, which resented the worsting of his chivalry.

From The Island Pharisees by John Galsworthy

Yet, in fact, there had not been a disaster, but only a moderate worsting of the Federal army, resulting in its retirement a trifling distance to the place whence its opponents had just marched out.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by John T. (John Torrey) Morse

He fought with two knights who asked the lady Canacê to wife, the terms being that none should have her till he had succeeded in worsting Camballo in combat.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

He followed up his success by worsting the Senones, Carnutes, and Menapii, while Labienus defeated the Treviri.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

The flames, like devils thirsting, Lick the wind, where crackling spars Wage hellish warfare, worsting All the still, astonished stars!

From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann