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fiasco

[fee-as-koh, -ah-skoh] / fiˈæs koʊ, -ˈɑ skoʊ /


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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

We were so excited to assign blame for the Platner fiasco in the first few entries that we forgot to offer anything forward-looking.

From Slate Jul. 11, 2026

Similarly, the Sunday Mirror leads with "Kicking off", and pairs a photograph of England footballer Harry Kane with the caption "World Cup fiasco".

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

Stanton was appalled when she heard about the fiasco.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

The fiascoes pile up during his full-tilt quest to achieve his dream of being a world champion.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 26, 2025

One can only hope that these are growing pains, that as with early dubbing fiascoes, the streaming services will realize that writing and editing around commercials is an art form in itself.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2025

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

The good news is the state report makes multiple recommendations that, if followed, should help Florida’s universities avoid future accounting fiascoes, while strengthening boards of trustees and the Board of Governors, which oversees universities.

From Washington Times Mar. 13, 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

Live Nation, the group behind Ticketmaster and countless controversies surrounding ticket fiascos, is facing a Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit later this week.

From Salon May 23, 2024

Lawmakers repeatedly asked what went wrong in the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank fiascos.

From Washington Post Apr. 2, 2023

Interviews in Barcelona and with executives around the world suggest that a year’s worth of fiascos has done little to diminish the enthusiasm of true believers.

From New York Times Jan. 17, 2023

The result is fiascos like South Korea and Indonesia where 40-60 billion USD aid packages was consumed by sick economies in days to no avail.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin




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