crisis
Example Sentences
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It quotes figures saying that 4.6 million people in Somalia are facing crisis levels of hunger.
From BBC
The other is systemic, where everything goes down, as in the 2008-09 financial crisis.
From Barron's
It dramatically drove up the resolution cost of the S&L crisis from an estimated $25 billion had the problem been addressed in 1983 to an actual cost of $160 billion by the 1990s.
The compounding crises come at a difficult time for Tehran.
From Los Angeles Times
"If there is a major humanitarian crisis, the impact, the devastation will be unstoppable... We are talking about a catastrophe that Latin America has never seen," Mauricio Jaramillo said in an interview in Bogota.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
