misfire

Step back, and the strategic picture is bleak for the people who planned this misfire.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

Good Good Golf’s CEO and president are leaving the company in the latest fallout from its ad misfire with Callaway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

And yes, he did have this particular misfire that first year.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

In some cases the monitors that measure sewage spills can misfire but if the regulator does find these incidents occurred it will take enforcement action, it said.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

Anyone who knows anything about firearms will tell you that a 9mm handgun cannot misfire in the way that gun did.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

Even if Pangram misfires on a given op-ed, the study’s broader pattern—that A.I. use is showing up across major newspaper opinion pages, his own included—is impossible to argue with.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

As Bill Barker, who portrayed Jefferson for 26 years before Smith, put it, interpretive misfires aren’t failures so much as proof of concept—“reminders that Colonial Williamsburg,” like the nation itself, “is a work in progress.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Intel has had strategic misfires for decades, Meeks said, and government support won’t be enough to save it.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

For each of those successes, there are several messy misfires: The wan camp of “The Politician.”

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026

“Don’t be so sure—and don’t be so hard on yourself, kid. The transporter misfires now and again, but Ma don’t make mistakes. Could be this is all part of her plan.”

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott

Manchester City loanee Marmoush misfired again and his replacement Dominic Solanke was underwhelming in previous matches, while Richarlison has been frozen out in the reserves after being left out of their Premier League squad.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

It also represents the first release from the Meta Superintelligence Labs that the company rushed to build up last year after Llama misfired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

And having misfired of late, polls suggest that Japan's first woman Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi might manage to bring back the glory days with a thumping election win on Sunday.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

There have been other times when earthquake early warnings have misfired.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

Her engine misfired continuously, and Barlow lacked the mechanical knowledge to remedy its ailment.

From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Bertrand W. Sinclair

Rybakina won the first set despite her serve, one of her biggest weapons, misfiring.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Brainwashing isn’t enough: “To turn you into a willful collaborator, I need to also attack your emotional system. Empathy is an adaptive virtue. Suicidal empathy is the misfiring of this adaptive process.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Vance has been repeatedly ratioed on X ever since, a small but telling sign that the usual outrage machine is misfiring.

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026

Her performance in the first set of her second match was already a significant improvement, as she won nine of 11 points on her second serve, misfiring just twice for two double faults.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2025

And then, nine years later, Maria Teresa, his final desperate attempt at a boy misfiring.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez