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travesty

[trav-uh-stee] / ˈtræv ə sti /




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Surely, he thinks, Stalin wouldn’t stand for such a travesty.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

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 came directly home, sobered by the travesty in which they had participated.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez




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