fiasco
Example Sentences
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The most recent fiasco came on Wednesday night, when Liverpool lost 4-1 at home in the Champions League against PSV Eindhoven.
“This whole incident has been a fiasco and a blemish on our country. He needs to be fired,” he added.
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
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
So after the welfare fiasco, the whips were asked to make a list of those who had been actively trying to organise resistance to government plans, rather than just expressing objections.
From BBC
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