downfall
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Tech firms rallied Friday in Asian trade on optimism that the AI boom would continue despite the downfall of Nvidia mastermind Jensen Huang, with eyes on the mega-IPO of US titan Anthropic next week.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
“The precipitous downfall of LIV leaves many players with uncertain futures,” he wrote this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
But Australia played a part in their own downfall, with Josh Inglis run out for four after inexplicably being called through by Cameron Green.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
But for decades, he has defied predictions of his downfall.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
It was something undefinable I’d already been living with for months, now enflamed by Papa’s downfall.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
Whether any of these downfalls will result in a re-examination of how men treat women writ large looks less likely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
But one of the downfalls certainly has been how divisive some of the language is.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
The history of Silicon Valley is full of big bets and abrupt downfalls, but rarely has anyone traded his reputation for seemingly so little reward.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
Their sudden downfalls could therefore be seen as a lack of judgement by the Chinese president.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023
These latter care nothing for such matters, and permit the accumulation, in the countries subject to their influence, of the little successive disorganisations which finally result in great downfalls.
From The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave Le Bon
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