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Wait, a $10 billion bet gone bad plus some small-fry investor leverage kills $500 billion in crypto value?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

But psychologists and cognitive scientists say songs about relationships gone bad actually can do listeners a lot of good.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024

Yet another instance of a surge gone bad.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2023

The table is littered with scrawled notes and numbers, the detritus of hundreds of transactions gone bad, conflicts large and small, corporate and local, petty and profound.

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2022

Even though one book after another repeats this myth, the popularity of spices had nothing to do with disguising the taste of meat or fish that had gone bad.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson




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