greatest tragedy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatandtragedy
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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tragedy
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈtrædʒ.ə.di/us/ˈtrædʒ.ə.di/
a very sad event or situation, especially one involving death ...
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(Definition ofgreatandtragedyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thegreatesttragedyof all involves those whom we cannot count.
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We are up against thegreatesttragedyof all time.
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To talk of the young unemployed—tragic though their position is—as thegreatesttragedy, is wrong.
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We are breaking up the families, which is thegreatesttragedyof all.
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Our two countries have been at the heart of thegreatesttragedyof the 20th century.
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The answer could be chaos, catastrophe and thegreatesttragedyof suffering man has ever known.
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There is no doubt that thegreatesttragedystill facing this country is that of housing.
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Thegreatesttragedyof all is that the hospital cannot deal with surgical emergencies or casualties.
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That is thegreatesttragedyof all; this slow decline in quality.
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That would be thegreatesttragedyof all.
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It will be thegreatesttragedyif we find that this work is imperfectly done.
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In my view thegreatesttragedyis that the whole process has gone so badly wrong.
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I think that this is probably thegreatesttragedyof all.
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That is thegreatesttragedyof all in the growing unemployment from which we suffer.
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I think that it is thegreatesttragedyto put that unity at risk.
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For tens of thousands of families, that is thegreatesttragedyof their lives.
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Is not the tragedy of unemployment thegreatesttragedyof modern times?
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And it is thegreatesttragedy, of course, that two excellent young men should have been so misled as to take this view of their duty.
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Thegreatesttragedyis that remedial teachers, who are needed desperately, are the first to be pulled out.
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I think thegreatesttragedyabout this situation is that the housing and educational buildings are not already built and in use.
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