debaclein a sentence
debacle as in: the venture was a debacle
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Poor policy decisions have turned a minor event into an American debacle.
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The policy resulted in an unprecidented environmental debacle.†
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That mission certainly has not gone as the Bush administration planned, and it is roughly midway between a disappointment and a debacle.† (source)
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The result was a debacle.† (source)
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After the debacle in Russia I left the country, (source)debacle = an event or enterprise that ends disastrously
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I was just quietly hopeful that, after the racing debacle, Will was still prepared to leave the annex.† (source)
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Of all Joe's neighbors, however, none was more reproachful a presence than the Lafayette apartment house, that monument to Joe's financial debacle of just a few years back.† (source)
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And then the insurance debacles, the descent into this health care purgatory.† (source)
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Which meant, Vic assumed, that the kid was using the Zingers debacle to dump them at last.† (source)
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What can we do in this situation that seems to parallel other famous debacles of dealing with unpopular governments?† (source)
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I buy a couple of hot dogs and down them in a few bites, and it's only then that I realize I haven't eaten all day, which makes me think about lunch—and the Vanessa LeGrande debacle.† (source)
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I see her sitting on the stump petting Karenin's head and ruminating on mankind's debacles.† (source)
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She sold few and attributed the debacle to America's fading love of poetry.† (source)
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Miss Marlee wasn't to blame for this whole debacle.† (source)
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Just as you hear more about American soldiers in Vietnam raping women and children and shooting unarmed men, today the media is focused about this detainee debacle for two weeks solid, in contrast to American Soldiers being dragged in the streets and dismembered, which was covered for less than 72 hours.† (source)
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He showed his displeasure by throwing his books on the living-room floor and stomping up and down the steps and slamming doors and yelling at Dad the moment he got home from work for causing the debacle.† (source)
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