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Recent Examples of debacle Another allegation from the former deputy chief of the National Intelligence Service, Hong Jang-won, who left his job days after the martial law debacle, also suggests the president played a direct role in ordering use of force against political opponents. Se Eun Gong, NPR, 11 Dec. 2024 In this way, the Iran-contra debacle helped put to rest any Israeli illusions that revolutionary Iran was ephemeral or nonthreatening. Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024 Steinman said Yuengling not only benefited last year from its successful expansion into three states, but also fallout from a Bud Light marketing debacle, which slashed sales of the best-selling beer in the U.S. by 27%. Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 4 Dec. 2024 The impact of Credit Suisse’s debacle is highlighted in both the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission’s criminal and civil cases against Leech, whose attorney has vowed to fight the accusations. Bloomberg, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for debacle 
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Noun
  • The bill would provide $100 billion in funds for cleanup after devastating Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which rocked Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee and other Southern states, as well as other disasters.
    Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Developing Highly Detailed Maps Geospatial mapping technology could be better leveraged in disasters.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Both coaches have worked to downplay the magnitude of the moment — not just the stakes of this game but also the implications for the winner and, even more so, the fallout for the loser.
    Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The winner gets the coveted first-round bye, while the loser will have to go on the road for a wild-card playoff game.
    Austin Mock, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • And their seeming failure to look at it has become a running joke with my husband.
    Philip Galanes, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Several reports have linked ashwagandha to inflammation of the liver (hepatitis), yellowing of the skin and eyes (jaundice), liver failure, and the need for liver transplantation.92 Taking ashwagandha with other hepatotoxic medications may increase your risk for liver damage.
    Kirstyn Hill, PharmD, MPH, Health, 1 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Magdeburg marked the tragedy Saturday with the tolling church bells at 7:04 p.m., the exact time of the attack in the city of roughly 240,000 people.
    Kirsten Grieshaber, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Remus said the family is leaning into God to cope with the tragedy — along with being OK with laughter when remembering happy or funny moments.
    Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • And what was Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump but a fiasco of the highest order?
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Garcia was a star before the ordeal with Haney, and like it or not, his profile has grown since the fiasco.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Before now, United’s calamities in the last decade or so have been incubated to a tier most other clubs can only dream of: finishing bottom of a Champions League group; coming eighth in the Premier League but winning the FA Cup; losing a Europa League final 11-10 on penalties.
    Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Heroic figures who turned an approaching catastrophe into mere calamity 2024 December 29 Tribune Publishing Chicago Tribune New York Daily News Sun Sentinel of Fla. Daily Press of Va. Orlando Sentinel The Morning Call of Pa.
    Chris Doyle, Hartford Courant, 29 Dec. 2024

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