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travesty

[trav-uh-stee] / ˈtræv ə sti /




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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

This being the Dodgers first postseason meeting with Springer since that travesty, it would be a nice time to show him just how furious.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025

Department of Homeland Security, which supervises the agency, deserves extra credit for exposing this travesty.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025

I am a travesty, in bad make-up and someone else’s clothes, used glitz.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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