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debacle
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debacle as in:  the venture was a debacle

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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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    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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    I was just quietly hopeful that, after the racing debacle, Will was still prepared to leave the annex.†  (source)
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    When the survivors of the McKinley debacle showed up on the south side of Everest in 1996, Makalu Gau was again their leader.†  (source)
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    And then the insurance debacles, the descent into this health care purgatory.†  (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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    I see her sitting on the stump petting Karenin's head and ruminating on mankind's debacles.†  (source)
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    Well, she'd have to bear it meekly, much as she disliked it, if she expected to snatch victory from this debacle.†  (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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    Are you telling me this whole debacle is because of that girl?†  (source)
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    After the xylophone debacle in band, Lorenzo was adrift.†  (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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    He seems utterly oblivious to my shoe debacle.†  (source)
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