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fiasco

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


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"Order was lost, and an attempt was made to restore order. I believe that from start to finish, it was a fiasco," he said on Monday.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Every failure is fuel for the next fiasco.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

Lawrence, whose friendship with Oliphant grew out of the bonds forged during the deuteron fiasco of 1933, happily tendered the invitation.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

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

To celebrate such mistakes, mishaps and melees, read on for 10 of the funniest parenting fiascoes that made headlines this year.

From Fox News ● Dec. 30, 2020

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

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

Other experiments followed at intervals, most of which were fiascos, although some were partially successful.

From Stella Fregelius by Henry Rider Haggard


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