worst
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After being named an All-Star in each of his previous four seasons, Tucker is on pace for the worst offensive year since his 2018 debut season with the Astros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Among the worst performers on the Nikkei, Renesas Electronics 6723 -6.07%decrease; red down pointing triangle and Fujikura slip 7.2% each and Sumitomo Electric Industries 5802 -5.97%decrease; red down pointing triangle is down 6.7%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Until someone or something wins out, though, states, utilities, and elected officials remain unprepared for the worst.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
“But it does show that the worst of the cycle downtrend is likely behind us.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The worst part was seeing people with ugly whitish scars.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
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
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
Blaine Gabbert or Colin Kaepernick failed to provide strong quarterback play, Niners lacked any big-play receivers, defense set franchise worsts for most points, yards and yards rushing allowed in single season.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 20, 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
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
It's made at Alfred Brown worsted mills, a century-old family business in Bramley in Leeds.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2016
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
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
The flames, like devils thirsting, Lick the wind, where crackling spars Wage hellish warfare, worsting All the still, astonished stars!
From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann
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 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
Yates had a proud record to sustain, Harwell a decade of worsting to atone for.
From The Half-Back by Ralph Henry Barbour
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