derail
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Appeared in the January 8, 2026, print edition as 'Rate Worries Derail Dow’s Rally'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
A version of this article appears in print on March 2, 2014, on page SP3 of the with the headline: Late Scoring Drought Can’t Derail Connecticut.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2014
Why Rising Bullishness Could Derail Stocks The market might be far from the euphoria that often coincides with the end of a rally.
From BusinessWeek • Apr. 26, 2010
Derail, de-rāl′, v.t. to cause to leave the rails.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Speaking of Detour and Derail, “I wonder,” wonders A. T., “whether in your travels you ever got to Goslow.”
From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston
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