debacle
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This debacle is a first-world embarrassment of riches.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
In the wake of the Carruthers debacle, substantial questions were raised about Fowler’s ethics and competence, but they did not deter Tennessee from calling on him again.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
We are introduced to mortgage-backed securities and to the people who dreamt them up and abused them, antiheroes of the 2007-09 debt debacle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
And now, despite the debacle Down Under, the Rams remain the favorites to win the Super Bowl this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Shin and I met for the first time on the day after that balloon debacle.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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As the many debacles over inheritances show, it can often get worse as we get older.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
Spy agencies saw profound implications in the recent debacles, far beyond public humiliation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
The debacles “may have repercussions on the financial system more broadly,” warns junk bond guru Marty Fridson, chief executive officer of FridsonVision High Yield Strategy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
It is with this in mind, that the chancellor will promise the government has learnt the lessons of capital spending debacles, such as HS2.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2025
He hung with unqualified joy on the imagined ruins of imaginary disaster, and took equal pleasure in the actual debacles of life as it was lived about him.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
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