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The trading firm posted its worst month ever in July after bets at Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund soured.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

And, “Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz are the two worst things Oprah ever foisted on the public.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Croatia's fire chief Slavko Tucakovic described it as "one of the worst" blazes in the country's history.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Pereira's worst affected neighborhoods were also its most impoverished, with homeless people, Venezuelan migrants and street vendors in precarious situations bearing the brunt of the impact.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

“Probably more than we’ll need,” Dad had said, “but the worst thing that could happen would be to run out of water.”

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

Those missing pieces effected Elliott perhaps more than anyone, and he finished with career worsts of 979 yards and eight total touchdowns.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

Cobb allowed season worsts of nine runs and 11 hits in a June 10 loss at Toronto.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 20, 2018

His .162 batting average, .237 on-base percentage and .276 slugging percentage were all league-wide worsts among players who batted at least 200 times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2017

He finished with a .229 batting average and .616 OPS, both career worsts.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2016

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

His father was a Wall Street banker turned Connecticut senator who was straight out of central casting: craggy, 6-foot-4, wearing gray worsted suits even in warm weather.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

From The Island Pharisees by John Galsworthy

Anne haggard, Mary coarse, every face in the neighbourhood worsting, and the rapid increase of the crow's foot about Lady Russell's temples had long been a distress to him.

From Persuasion by Jane Austen