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debacle noun adversity, blow, breakdown, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, collapse, contretemps, crash, demolishment, demolition, destruction, devastation, disaster, disruption, dissolution, downfall, emergency, fall, fiasco, havoc, misadventure, mischance, mishap, overthrow, overturn, ravage, reverse, rout, ruin, ruination, setback, smash, tragedy, upset, wreck

See also: cataclysm, failure, subversion

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accounting adverse event adversity blow breakdown calamity cataclysm catastrophe collapse contretemps crash Cuban Missile Crisis defeat demolishment demolition destruction devastation disaster disruption			As Taleb might observe, the debacles in financial markets (remember Long-Term Capital Management and Bear Stearns' recent fund blowups) are black swan-like events, outliers that most people don't expect--most folks expect swans to be white because that's what their experience tells them. The board bungled it by Chief Executive (U.S.) No debacles but there were plenty of good times for Strachan. Football: I've never seen the bad times says Gord by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) Tony Blair fears that the recent debacles that have rocked Westminster - involving Charles Clarke, John Prescott and Patricia Hewitt - may dent support for Labour councils. Letter: The BIG issue - Kick in the ballots? by The Mirror (London, England)			dealing out dealings deals dean dear dearth dearth of ideas death Death and Dying Death bed Death bed or dying declarations death by accident death by violence death penalty death row death sentence Death Warrant Death's part death-bringing death-dealing deathblow deathless deathly debacle débâcle debacles debar debarkation point debarment debarred debarring debase debase in quality debased debased person debasement debatable debatable issue debatable point debate debater debauch débauche debauched debauchery debauchment debenture debere deberi Debet esse finis litium Debet et detinet			deattributions Deaurate Deauration Deautomatization Deauville Deauville Deauville American Film Festival Deauville pour les Cultures Juives Deauville Saint-Gatien Airport Deauville St-Gatien Deauville, France Deauville, France Deave DEAVS DEAW deb deb deb Deb Canham Artist Designs deb. DEB/DRAMA Deba DeBabelizer Debacchate Debacchation debacle debacle debacle débâcle débâcle debacles debag debagged Debagging debags Debakey Debakey DeBakey bulldog clamps DeBakey bulldog clamps DeBakey Classification of Thoracic Aortic Dissections DeBakey forceps DeBakey High School for Health Professions DeBakey Michael Ellis DeBakey tissue forceps DeBakey tissue forceps DeBakey VAD DeBakey, Michael Debaltsevo debanding Debao Property Development Ltd. DEBAP debar debar Debar Opstina Debar Opstina Debarb Debard-David-Le Corvec Débardage Cheval Limousin Debarim Debarim debark

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