infamous
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It agreed in 2024 to a 20-year power deal to support Constellation Energy’s restart of the undamaged reactor at Pennsylvania’s former Three Mile Island, the site of the most infamous U.S. nuclear accident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The signs are all around that Wall Street is back in that dangerous atmosphere of giddy euphoria that those with long memories will remember from the infamous dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
But in the infamous case of Dred Scott v.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
The infamous Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20, for example, killed an estimated three billion animals.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Wherever Farmer walked in the city he felt the presence of the tontons macoutes, Baby Doc’s infamous secret police, who hid behind dark glasses and seemed to shadow foreign visitors.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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