train wreck
nounDefinition of train wreck
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: a violent and destructive crash involving a train
2
: an utter disaster or mess : a disastrous calamity or source of trouble
Six months later, with Washington facing a political train wreck in Iraq, whom did it call? The United Nations.— Fareed Zakaria The train wreck that was Florence Ballard could not be hidden anymore. … Those shows went on without a hitch, but with Ballard progressively drinking harder, disaster awaited them as they trekked from Miami to play several college dates across the South.— Mark Ballard … to create what is termed on Capitol Hill a train wreck—a budget crisis so awful that the President would have to seriously negotiate, and yield on taxes.— Elizabeth Drew
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And the third couple was a train wreck: The woman abandoned the project after one week. — Jenna Birch, Washington Post, "Daters discard one another so quickly. Could this experiment help people commit?," 6 Aug. 2019 The root of this privacy train wreck is browser extensions. — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Denver Post, "Browser extensions collect and sell data with almost no oversight," 28 July 2019 The root of this privacy train wreck is browser extensions. — Anchorage Daily News, "He found your online data - and it’s for sale," 19 July 2019 The root of this privacy train wreck is browser extensions. — Washington Post, "I found your data. It’s for sale.," 18 July 2019 Washington’s shallow faults are the result of a kind of slow-moving tectonic train wreck. — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, "Friday earthquakes on a crustal fault show it’s not only the ‘Big One’ we should fear," 13 July 2019 Here in Louisville, some absolute train wrecks have played out on screens when online reviews go wrong, either from angry diners or equally livid restaurant staff. — Dana Mcmahan, The Courier-Journal, "Everybody's a critic: What Louisville restaurateurs really think of your Yelp review," 17 June 2019 Sunday’s accident was Taiwan’s deadliest railway disaster since a 1991 train wreck killed 30 people. — Ralph Jennings, The Seattle Times, "Taiwan court: Excessive speed caused deadly train derailment," 23 Oct. 2018 James’ first season with the Lakers was a train wreck. — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, "The book on Andre Iguodala: Here are two teams he could help," 1 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'train wreck.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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