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"It seems to me that this has the potential to backfire spectacularly," she said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Good scientific intentions can backfire, however, even when aimed at maintaining precious waterways.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

But there’s no way this could possibly backfire, right?

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

Britney Nguyen looked into a forward-looking factor helping drive the resurgence in chip makers, and how it could backfire.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

“Between the five of you not a single one thought that maybe this was too dangerous, that it would most likely backfire spectacularly.”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

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

Is there a chance this really backfires, then?

From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026

The programme describes it as a hero's plot for peace that backfires with drastic consequences.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

The car behind me at the drive-thru backfires, and I rush inside.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

Coach Sean McVay’s strategy of arriving the day before the game backfired and resulted in a dull performance by a team that features some of the biggest stars in the NFL.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

But a police crackdown on crowds marching towards parliament on July 20 backfired, galvanising support for the movement and transforming anger over exam leaks into a broader expression of youth frustration.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

The chain has experienced other problems as well, including remodels that backfired, agitation among activist investors and same-store sales that have wobbled over Masino’s three-year tenure.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

According to these views, if the hacking incident was a publicity stunt then it appears as though it backfired.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

The threatened prosecution of aliens also backfired on the Federalists, when Irish immigrants in New York and Germans in Pennsylvania, formerly staunch supporters of the Adams administration, went over to the Republicans in droves.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

The topic is the biggest flex—and source of stress—in Silicon Valley, where tech pros and amateurs are competing to see how much of their grunt work they can outsource to AI without things backfiring spectacularly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

At around that time, those price increases started backfiring.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 25, 2025

The only problem being, of course, that whenever you ran an operation that was not aboveboard there was a certain risk of it backfiring into a worse situation than it had been before.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols