fiasco
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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
Investors warn the fiasco will hurt Turkey’s credibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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
He had mentioned nothing of his nocturnal fiasco to Heqet or the Ancient, and now he was glad, very glad.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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One analogy is to the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley law, enacted after the WorldCom and Enron fiascoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Paramount also wanted to avoid any public relations fiascoes when Stone and Parker take the stage Thursday at fan-fest Comic-Con in San Diego.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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
Oakland was too understanding during the fiascoes with his frostbitten feet and helmet grievances.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2019
What happened next changed history and resulted in one of America's most tragic medical fiascoes.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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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
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
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
Ah, but, my dear," he answered airily, "'twas those two fiascos which begot my notion, and yet hearten me.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
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