abject
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Emery has needed a way with words at times, refusing to lay into his players at half-time during the abject defeat by Tottenham at the start of the month.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
India say they can peak at the right time and play their "perfect game" in the Super Eights at the T20 World Cup, while playing down the abject form of opening batsman Abhishek Sharma.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
Mr. Leon’s staging and Ms. DiDonato’s performance built a compelling arc: The real Christmas miracle is not Amahl’s sudden cure, but the transformation of the Mother’s abject despair into hope.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
Schindler, the former U.N. counterterrorism official, blamed the rapid dissemination of such footage on “an abject failure of the platforms” to police content.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
“There is no relation between the massive accumulation of wealth in one part of the world and abject misery in another.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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