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travesty

[trav-uh-stee] / ˈtræv ə sti /




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It was indeed a travesty that the two-loss Irish, winners of their last 10 games by double digits, did not get a spot in the national tournament.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

Let’s put the nicest interpretation on that earlier travesty.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

She added: "It is a travesty that a woman can be judged as having expressed herself in the wrong way when she objects to finding a man in the women's changing room."

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

“We believe the judiciary can step in to prevent this travesty of justice,” Cassell said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Then someone subtly begins calling her GLaDOS, which is the name of the evil computer in the classic Portal games—and if this session wasn’t a travesty before, now it definitely is.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman




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