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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

"Given the fiasco around the marking and return of results, we once again question the whole purpose of these outdated tests."

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

Several days after the fiasco with Bragg, the crystallographer V. Vand sent Max a letter containing a theory for the diffraction of X rays by helical molecules.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

More often it’s how mistakes turn into fiascoes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 4, 2023

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

One would think fiascos like this would cure lawyers of their reliance on artificial intelligence chatbots to do their work for them.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2025

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

The financial fiascos weren’t enough to cancel the Crypties.

From New York Times Dec. 1, 2022

He could see Bannister Field, the scene of his many hilarious athletic fiascos.

From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by J. Raymond Elderdice




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