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travesty

[trav-uh-stee] / ˈtræv ə sti /




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To let the moment pass without taking action would be a travesty.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

Let’s put the nicest interpretation on that earlier travesty.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

What are the latest updates on that travesty?

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2025

Its assertion that “studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism” is a travesty of the scientific method.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

They might well have been reacting to what they saw as a travesty of justice.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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