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Croatian firefighters were tackling "one of the worst" wildfires in the country's history, fire chief Slavko Tucakovic said, as flames engulfed homes and injured 19 people on the coast.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Users—brand-affiliated or otherwise—who break subreddits’ promotional rules often find their comments deleted at best and their accounts banned at worst.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Indeed, the three sides with the best xG difference finished in the top three in the same order, while - excluding Sunderland - the five sides with the worst made up the bottom five.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

The pumpkin-spice latte effect solves what has previously been a mystery: Why is September the worst month of the calendar for the stock market?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

The screaming children were an irritation at best, a nuisance at worst.

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2022

They gave up 27 straight points and 36 points total, both season worsts.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2018

Set franchise worsts for points, total yards and yards rushing allowed in season and blew four double-digit leads in eight home games.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 22, 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

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

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2016

We read about one of them, in a store: “A beautiful jacket in blue worsted wool was making him feel sad.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2014

He belonged to a walled city of the fifteenth century, a city of narrow, cobbled streets, and thin spires, where the inhabitants wore pointed shoes and worsted hose.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Yates had a proud record to sustain, Harwell a decade of worsting to atone for.

From The Half-Back by Ralph Henry Barbour

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 Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

But if Michael, after thoroughly worsting you, asks me my opinion, I shall certainly give it him.

From Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

He fought with two knights who asked the lady Canacê to wife, the terms being that none should have her till he had succeeded in worsting Camballo in combat.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Ajax, noble son of Telamon, captain of your people, the cry of Ulysses rings in my ears, as though the Trojans had cut him off and were worsting him while he is single-handed.

From The Iliad by Homer