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“If the Fed gets inflation wrong and judges the economy wrong, who gets the worst of it?” he asked.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

It was one of the worst financial disasters in American history, leading to the creation of the Federal Reserve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

"It was every parent's worst nightmare. One moment she was happily playing, and the next she was fighting for her life," said Emma.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

That marked the stock market’s worst performance in a decade of keynote addresses by the Fed chair at the symposium.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

She gazed at Deadwood with dreamlike curiosity, unlike most people, who peered at Clare’s tangled woods with dread, or disgust, or, worst of all, as if it were something they could own.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Those missing pieces effected Elliott perhaps more than anyone, and he finished with career worsts of 979 yards and eight total touchdowns.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

His .162 batting average, .237 on-base percentage and .276 slugging percentage were all league-wide worsts among players who batted at least 200 times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2017

He finished with a .229 batting average and .616 OPS, both career worsts.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2016

Harvey lasted just four innings and gave up seven runs, both career worsts.

From Washington Times ● May 23, 2015

It seems like a long list of worsts.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon

He often mixed silk and wool or silk and linen for a softer alternative to the heavy, stiff gabardines and worsted wools that were typical for men’s suits and jackets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025

Rolls upon rolls of flannel, worsted wool and cashmere are stacked in a space the size of a football field.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2017

It's made at Alfred Brown worsted mills, a century-old family business in Bramley in Leeds.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2016

We read about one of them, in a store: “A beautiful jacket in blue worsted wool was making him feel sad.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2014

He belonged to a walled city of the fifteenth century, a city of narrow, cobbled streets, and thin spires, where the inhabitants wore pointed shoes and worsted hose.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

The flames, like devils thirsting, Lick the wind, where crackling spars Wage hellish warfare, worsting All the still, astonished stars!

From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann

He was the first to speak, and, in doing so, he felt he was acknowledging his worsting in the encounter.

From The Law-Breakers by Ridgwell Cullum

Ajax, noble son of Telamon, captain of your people, the cry of Ulysses rings in my ears, as though the Trojans had cut him off and were worsting him while he is single-handed.

From The Iliad by Homer

He followed up his success by worsting the Senones, Carnutes, and Menapii, while Labienus defeated the Treviri.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

There was that within him, however, which resented the worsting of his chivalry.

From The Island Pharisees by John Galsworthy