disastrous
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Vance’s post might be seen as his opening bid to run for president in 2028—dissociating himself from Trump’s most disastrous policy but not from Trump.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
The party had a disastrous showing in the last national election, when it lost its parliamentary majority for the first time since 1994 when the racist apartheid system ended.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
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
“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
Yet they did not appear miserable in the least; instead, they were laughing and joking, as though they had just played a game of bowls and not fought a potentially disastrous fire.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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