crisis
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There are three large tanks with a highly toxic chemical called methyl methacrylate, or MMA, used to make plastic, that are in crisis around the 12000 block of Western Avenue in Garden Grove.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Paz came to power six months ago, in the midst of the country's worst economic crisis since the 1980s, marked by acute shortages of fuel and foreign currency and runaway inflation.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
During the 2007-08 global financial crisis, a spike in oil collided with “a leveraged financial system already stressed from housing and wholesale funding pressure,” the Rapidan team said.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
Its CEO, Trevor McCartney, welcomed the funding and said "it's really good news for the hospice sector" which "has been suffering from a genuine crisis of funding".
From BBC • May 22, 2026
They both did anticipate, albeit from decidedly different perspectives, the looming sectional crisis between North and South that their own partnership stretched across.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing crisis
"The Civil Rights Movement"
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Calamity, Catastrophe, and Crisis: Disaster Words
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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