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The airlines emphasized Spirit’s dire financial straits, but the judge found that that distress didn’t meet a rigorous “failing firm” threshold that would’ve triggered friendlier antitrust treatment.

From Slate • May 5, 2026

Staging a Shakespeare tragedy with just four actors sounds like a potentially comic stunt or an unfortunate advertisement of dire economic straits, in either case a radical diminishment of the play.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

"There's no legal basis for the introduction of any tax, any customs, or any fees for on straits for international navigation," IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez said at a press conference.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

Dire straits at present emphasize the fragility of global supply chains, with extremely negative implications for inflation in a deglobalized world.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

The rural economy of the United States had already been in desperate straits for some time by that fall.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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