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The president's latest order also arrives just as children across the country are readying to return to school, and as the US suffers its worst measles outbreak in 35 years.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

July’s selloff resulted in the worst month for the momentum trade since 2000, according to one measure — but wild swings beneath the surface barely registered at the index level.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Whatever the case, the occasion seemed a good moment to rank all 29 of Mellencamp’s singles that have charted on Billboard’s Hot 100 — starting with the worst and ending with the best.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

The French have it the worst, as has been the case in eight of the past 10 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

It was the worst night of the year—when human children came from all over the village to surround Clare’s wood.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

The team has suddenly become the best at worsts.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025

Those missing pieces effected Elliott perhaps more than anyone, and he finished with career worsts of 979 yards and eight total touchdowns.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

He finished with a .229 batting average and .616 OPS, both career worsts.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2016

Harvey lasted just four innings and gave up seven runs, both career worsts.

From Washington Times ● May 23, 2015

It seems like a long list of worsts.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon

He often mixed silk and wool or silk and linen for a softer alternative to the heavy, stiff gabardines and worsted wools that were typical for men’s suits and jackets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025

His father was a Wall Street banker turned Connecticut senator who was straight out of central casting: craggy, 6-foot-4, wearing gray worsted suits even in warm weather.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2018

They had put chairs and pillows into it, and several worsted suits.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2018

Rolls upon rolls of flannel, worsted wool and cashmere are stacked in a space the size of a football field.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2017

Nor did she have any special concern for her own dress, which was a plain brown worsted and easy enough to wash if it got dirty.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

So far as the special matter in hand was concerned, the worsting of Hillsborough, though a gratification, did not result in the bettering of Franklin and his co-petitioners.

From Benjamin Franklin by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)

Yet, in fact, there had not been a disaster, but only a moderate worsting of the Federal army, resulting in its retirement a trifling distance to the place whence its opponents had just marched out.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)

Anne haggard, Mary coarse, every face in the neighbourhood worsting, and the rapid increase of the crow's foot about Lady Russell's temples had long been a distress to him.

From Persuasion by Austen, Jane

Ah, Julia remembered now, and with the recollection of the principal's words came the means of worsting Grace Harlowe in her efforts to vindicate Anne.

From Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]

There was that within him, however, which resented the worsting of his chivalry.

From The Island Pharisees by Galsworthy, John