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fiasco

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


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While the women were still reeling from the voice-to-text fiasco, another drama was about to unfold.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 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

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

Ernest presided happily over all this activity without bothering himself too much about the experimental results, notwithstanding the lesson of the deuteron fiasco.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

Despite the litany of fiascoes over the last few years, probation leaders still argued in court filings that Bonta had gone too far.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 10, 2025

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

I’d rather cheer for a kooky blockbuster that’s all fiascos, like the midpoint Monty Python-esque sequence where the crew botches the resurrection and interrogation of craggy old corpses.

From New York Times Mar. 30, 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

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

Your making a touchdown for the other eleven, by running the wrong way with the pigskin, your hilarious fiascos in every sport, your home-run with the bases full, on a strike-out-are specters to haunt you.

From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by J. Raymond Elderdice




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