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That is also a must for post-flooding cleanup, should the worst happen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

He arrived at that rate by calculating the lowest inflation-adjusted withdrawal rate that could nevertheless have been sustained by a 50% stock/50% bond portfolio in the worst 30-year period in U.S. history.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

"It kills me that the worst day of my life was just a normal Wednesday for everyone else," he says.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

And we will be fooled into believing that’s the best, or worst, thing comedy has to offer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

It won’t be the worst thing that’s happened today.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

The team has suddenly become the best at worsts.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025

In fact, five earned runs and three homers remain season worsts for Gray, who has a 2.99 ERA in 16 starts since that April 1 loss.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

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

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

The boys were neatly dressed in snow-white shirts, blazers with badges, preppy caps with badges, ties matching the badges, shiny black and brown shoes, worsted knee-high socks.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

From The Island Pharisees by John Galsworthy

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

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