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• n  a sudden and violent collapse
• n  flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer
• n  a sound defeat

• The debacle of the team at the T20 championship angered the fans all over the country.
• How Neil Bush let himself get caught up in the $1 billion Silverado debacle.
• The one heartwarming lesson from the Bush-Gore debacle is supposed to be that every vote counts.

• fiasco
• thrashing
• walloping
• drubbing
• slaughter
• trouncing
• whipping

News & Articles

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• The book's still open on 'think like a Nazi' debacle
  The book's still open on 'think like a Nazi' debacle Times Union Copyright 2013 Times Union. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 10:34 pm, Thursday, June 20, 2013 The Albany school district teacher who asked students to think like a Nazi and "argue that Jews are evil" for a persuasive writing assignment never returned to the ...
  June 21, 2013 - Albany Times Union
• Kotaku Non-Gamer Simplifies Xbox One Debacle For People Who Don’t Care | Deadspin Report: Aaron Hern
  Kotaku Non-Gamer Simplifies Xbox One Debacle For People Who Don’t Care | Deadspin Report: Aaron Hernandez Arrest "Likely" | Lifehacker How I Motivated Myself to Face My Weight and Debt Problems | Jalopnik Watch Jerry Seinfeld Do Burnouts In David Letterman's V8 Volvo Wagon
  June 20, 2013 - Deadspin
• Vikings TE John Carlson laments 'debacle' of 2012 season
  Despite the solid season by the Minnesota Vikings last season with an unexpected 10-6, the year was disappointing for one player in particular. Tight end John Carlson says his first year with the franchise was a "debacle", according to an interview with the St. Paul Pioneer Press . Carlson was virtually non-existent after coming over via free agency from the Seattle Seahawks . The former Notre ...
  June 19, 2013 - SB Nation

Quotes

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• Alex Rodriguez in International Herald Tribune
  The whole thing was a mistake. It was a huge debacle,A-Rod said Thursday after finalizing his $275 million, 10-year contract. "For me it was very stressful. It was a very humbling experience. I knew what I wanted from Day 1. The mistake I...
• John Toshack in Eatsleepsport.com
  After what I have seen in this match I am obviously doing something wrong......we were second best everywhere. I was bitterly disappointed by the performance and want to apologise to our fans who made the trip out here to watch this debacle,...