backfire

Formula 1 is an expensive pursuit and far wealthier nations have already seen their ambitions backfire.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernández wondered whether the Braves’ game plan might soon backfire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

But Thomas warned that plans to keep more middle-ranking cases before magistrates by abolishing defendants' rights to ask for a jury trial could backfire - not least because of a shortage of magistrates.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

CEOs including Jensen Huang of Nvidia, another TechNet member, have said that roughly half the world’s AI researchers are Chinese, meaning that restrictive policies could backfire on the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

There was the loud bang of a backfire and the horseless chugged forward.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

The company has long relied on this high-yielding equity as its primary engine to bankroll Bitcoin acquisitions—a strategy that backfires when the shares lose ground.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

All of the above comes with a caveat: Unbridled choice often backfires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

"Discord could lose users if its implementation of age verification backfires, but it could equally attract more new users who will be drawn to its new standards for online safety by design," he said.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

Officers potentially wasting thousands of hours in pursuit of car backfires and construction noise mislabeled as gunfire has not deterred the New York Police Department from continuing to use it.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2026

While groans, fiendish gurglings and backfires were emitting from the barn, the house itself would be organized confusion, as the family carried out its preparations in accordance with prearranged plans.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

And that time, the result was unequivocal: the Rams’ approach of showing up 24 hours before the game backfired spectacularly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

But in the end, the episode backfired on them.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

They gave him just a few days off, and that backfired.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The popularity of companion apps may show that policy has backfired.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

I tried to use my powers to get something I wanted, and it really backfired.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

"The policy risks backfiring because it would result in stockpiling of diesel, and as that storage runs out, refineries would need to cut back on production," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

But Frazer Rhodes, who worked in government across a decade to help build the technology and devise high thresholds for the alerts, feels a review is now necessary to avoid future ones backfiring.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

But I also feel like there’s a huge risk of that backfiring.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

Nestlé tweaked its portfolio, but investors say some acquisitions were a distraction, backfiring as the company expanded into non-core areas.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

“No, we got wind of a nasty backfiring jinx down in Elephant and Castle, but luckily the Magical Law Enforcement Squad had sorted it out by the time we got there...”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling