Crossword-Solution: DEBACLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Debacle | n. | A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
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greedy person
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Sentences with DEBACLE (5)
Preliminary estimates place the cost of this debacle at between $800 Million and $2 Billion if the entire 737 fleet is grounded for only 2 weeks.
The latest virus debacle comes immediately on the heels of the announcement of the dGraph infections.
After the debacle of the second meeting of the panel, The Pope and Henry had decided to send the material away for confirmation by another document examiner.
Get it at Howland's?” II Four days after the Jolly Seventeen debacle Vida Sherwin called and casually blew Carol's world to pieces.
One need only think over his books and his subjects to be convinced of this: "L'Assommoir" and drunkenness; "Nana" and harlotry; "Germinale" and strikes; "L'Argent" and money getting and losing in all its branches; "Pot-Bouille" and the cruel squalor of poverty; "La Terre" and the life of the peasant; "Le Debacle" and the decay of imperialism.
Quotes with DEBACLE (3)
The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history and culture really do set limits on what can be accomplished in any given place. But the experience in the Balkans reinforced an idealist dictum that is equally true: One should always work near the limits of what is possible rather than cynically give up on any place. In this decade idealists went too far; in the previous one, it was realists who did not go far enough.
My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.
If you are anguished with your failures, you despise and accuse those very adversities and held them responsible for your debacle.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 38 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).