fiasco
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The not-so-Super Rams return to the scene of that fiasco on Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Every failure is fuel for the next fiasco.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
He described the fiasco surrounding the proposal as "a sad and reproachable series of events".
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Everyone had abandoned ship after the photo fiasco.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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
The latest example: This weekend’s follies in the NFC East, where a pair of victories were lost in baffling last-second fiascos that showed the humble limits of human function.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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
Lawmakers repeatedly asked what went wrong in the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank fiascos.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2023
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
Defeats, disasters, and exasperating fiascos had been common since the war began.
From The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 by William Charles Henry Wood
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