Debut vs Debacle - What's the difference?
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A performer's first-time performance to the public.
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(transitive, chiefly, US) to formally introduce, as to the public
to make one's initial formal appearance
An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.
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* 1996 , Richard L. Canby, "SOF: An Alternative Perspective on Doctrine", in Schultz et al'' (eds), ''Roles And Missions of SOF In The Aftermath Of The Cold War ,
* 2002, Jacqueline West, South America, Central America and the Carribean 2002 , Routledge, ISBN 1-857431-21-9, page 68,
* 2007 , BP pipeline failure: hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources , "Statement by Peter Van Tuyn",
(ecology) A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.
* 1836 , , How to Observe: Geology ,
* 1837 , John Lee Comstock, Outlines of Geology ,
* 1872, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution'',
As a noun debut
is debut.As a verb debacle is
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(en noun)- Since making its debut two years ago, the program has gained cult status.
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Verb
(en verb)- Amalgamated Software Systems debuted release 3.2 in Spring of 2004.
- Release 3.2 debuted to mixed reviews in Spring of 2004.
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(en noun)- The event proved to be a great debacle for the partisans of this prognosticator.
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- The result is a military approach which maximizes political tensions with Russia and lays the ground for a military debacle .
- The Falklands-Malvinas débâcle provided the opportunity to restructure the military High Command; Alfonsín removed anti-democratic senior officers and replaced them with more co-operative ones.
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- The BP Prudhoe Bay debacle [the thus provides but the latest in a long line of reasons why leasing this region of the NPR-A is a bad idea.
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- For several months after the debacle just described, the river Dranse, having no settled channel, shifted its position continually
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- When this débâcle commences