disastrous
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Surprisingly, perhaps, I don’t often feel the same frustration you express in your letter when I read a letter where someone walks into a disastrous financial crisis.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
In 2019, competing documentaries about the disastrous Fyre Festival took different approaches to paying its disgraced organizer, Billy McFarland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
“As soon as I renovated it, I would sell it and move into another disastrous property. I couldn’t stop myself, and it’s always been like that,” she says with a laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Senne Lammens: Made a major early error that could have had disastrous consequences but the Belgian recovered to make the save from Dominic Solanke.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
It has been known to infest beehives, with disastrous effects on the honey.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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