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crisis

[krahy-sis] / ˈkraɪ sɪs /


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Sir Brian Leveson, a senior retired judge, warned ministers, the police and others that there could not be a "pick and mix" response to solving the crisis.

From BBC

But it is the latest South African town to be hit by a severe water crisis, caused by the failure to maintain infrastructure and changing weather patterns.

From BBC

Though county voters in 2024 approved a sales tax increase to combat the homelessness crisis, county officials said they faced a more than $270 million budget gap to maintain current homeless service operations.

From Los Angeles Times

I am told he argues that while confronting, in the late noughties, the biggest financial crisis since the 1930s, he sought Epstein's expertise in the national interest.

From BBC

New rent-to-own companies sprang up in the years after the foreclosure crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal