fiasco

This six-fumble fiasco saw the Chargers end drives in this frustrating staccato: missed field goal, punt, interception, punt, touchdown, punt, end of half, touchdown, punt, punt, fumble, interception, safety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

Now, five months later, they can see it is a fiasco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

For some of those companies, the Strait of Hormuz fiasco has been a stock boost.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

Zidane is finding Les Bleus in immeasurably better shape than his predecessor did at the start of his own tenure, at which point the wounds of the 2010 World Cup fiasco were still fresh.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

I sent for the porter and when he came I told him in Italian to get me a bottle of Cinzano at the wine shop, a fiasco of chianti and the evening papers.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

One analogy is to the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley law, enacted after the WorldCom and Enron fiascoes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Those fiascoes were overtaken in the public eye by Alarcon’s worker-turned-enemy, L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

The Raider has, by all reports, been a well-managed program, at least compared with other Air Force procurement fiascoes.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2022

From failed gender reveal to photo-shoot flops, read on for nine of the funniest parenting fiascoes that made headlines this year.

From Fox News ● Dec. 29, 2019

What happened next changed history and resulted in one of America's most tragic medical fiascoes.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

If the fiascos Jobs encountered were largely of his own making, the successes often had to do with luck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

Hudson’s detractors point to the public-relations fiascos the group suffered under her watch, from #OscarsSoWhite to the “Moonlight”/“La La Land” envelope snafu to the Will Smith Slap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2022

The toughness of Eyob Faniel of Italy, who placed third in the men’s race after enduring 56 hours of travel — and various travel fiascos — from his training base in Kenya last week.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2021

This most private public servant finds herself repeatedly ensnared in public fiascos, which makes for a dramatic life story that easily fills 500 pages — and Abedin is only 45.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2021

When one of these fiascos occurs the cause can many times be referred to the fact that the student did not have enough facts at his command.

From How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study by Harry D. Kitson