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[dey-, -bak-uhl, duh-, dee-bah-kuhl] / deɪ-, -ˈbæk əl, də-, diˈbɑ kəl /


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Appeared in the October 15, 2025, print edition as 'Death of a ‘Clean Energy’ Debacle'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

Tellingly, in his career-spanning 2014 anthology “Bent Larsen’s Best Games: Fighting Chess with the Great Dane,” the Danish GM skips right over without a single mention the Debacle in Denver.

From Washington Times • May 10, 2022

Perfect proof was provided Sunday in Big D, where the unbeaten Steelers nearly had a Big Debacle against the woeful Cowboys.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2020

This was a question that came up during the great Samsung Galaxy Fold Debacle of 2019, when a number of review units, including The Verge’s, appeared to break during testing.

From The Verge • Jul. 22, 2019

Zola in "Le Debacle" puts into his picture of the battle of Sedan an old peasant plowing on his farm in the valley.

From In the Claws of the German Eagle by Williams, Albert Rhys




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