downfall

What to know: Cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX, is played by Anthony Boyle in this series about the onetime tech darling’s downfall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Often she can channel her emotions into her aggressive hitting, but former British number one Annabel Croft believes it contributed to her downfall against Rybakina.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

It also led to the downfall of the administration of KP Sharma Oli, setting in motion a series of events that culminated with the election of youthful Prime Minister Balendra Shah in March.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

The filing caps a stunning downfall for a league that sowed chaos in professional golf from its inception.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Wishing, therefore, to reply to these objections, I shall discuss the characteristics of several emperors, showing the reasons for their downfall, which are not different from those that I myself have already presented.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

Whether any of these downfalls will result in a re-examination of how men treat women writ large looks less likely.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

But one of the downfalls certainly has been how divisive some of the language is.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024

The history of Silicon Valley is full of big bets and abrupt downfalls, but rarely has anyone traded his reputation for seemingly so little reward.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

Preventing heavy rainfall tuning into deadly floods requires robust defences to deal with sudden intense downfalls.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2024

Yet the superficial accumulation extended under all of them except such as were in direct contact with the bedrock, proving that the cave was occupied throughout the period in which such downfalls occurred.

From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke