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debacle
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debacle as in:  the venture was a debacle

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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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    It was nice to hear the CIA take even some of the blame, although you could pretty much throw a stick in 2007 and hit someone responsible for that 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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    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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    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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    What can we do in this situation that seems to parallel other famous debacles of dealing with unpopular governments?†  (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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    I see her sitting on the stump petting Karenin's head and ruminating on mankind's debacles.†  (source)
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    A week after the Bay of Pigs debacle, Kennedy calls his advisers, including Bobby, into the Cabinet Room.†  (source)
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    All I know is, at that exact moment, the debacle of Los Angeles that I had carried around like some clinking leg iron fell away, and I thought I might be OK.†  (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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    Which meant, Vic assumed, that the kid was using the Zingers debacle to dump them at last.†  (source)
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