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Kyiv has been worst hit - its metro trains and trolleybuses at times brought to a standstill.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

The worst part of my medical history has been acute pain episodes, beginning at 23, when I had a suspected ruptured ovarian cyst.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Momentum strategies, of course, buy the stocks with the best trailing-year returns and/or short the stocks with the worst trailing-year returns.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

Which historical figure would make the worst roommate?

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

We took my father home, but the worst was not over.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Wacha allowed season worsts of six earned runs and three home runs against Baltimore in his previous start.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2022

Only Robbie Ray of the Arizona Diamondbacks had a higher walk rate among qualified starters. Lynn’s strikeout and home run rates were also career worsts, making his 3.43 ERA seem like a mirage.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2017

At USC, Wilcox’s teams slid to, or very close to, career worsts in points allowed, yardage allowed, completion percentage and turnovers produced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2017

Now they will try to fix a defense that set franchise worsts for points, yards and yards rushing allowed in a single season in 2016.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 27, 2017

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

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

Dark gray, worsted wool, jackets with rows of brass.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2017

It's made at Alfred Brown worsted mills, a century-old family business in Bramley in Leeds.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2016

He said he would not, at present, allow for expenditure on any dresses of fine stuffs, but rather recommended she brood on worsted and prunella twill.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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 John T. (John Torrey) Morse

He followed up his success by worsting the Senones, Carnutes, and Menapii, while Labienus defeated the Treviri.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

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 Jane Austen

In the fighting of that day James Douglas, the second son of the fat Earl of Avondale, won the prize, worsting his elder brother William in the final encounter.

From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards

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

From The Island Pharisees by John Galsworthy