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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

Interior Minister Laurent Nunez rejected criticism from opposition deputies over the response, insisting: "This is not a fiasco -- we were prepared."

From Barron's Jun. 28, 2026

I sent for the porter and when he came I told him in Italian to get me a bottle of Cinzano at the wine shop, a fiasco of chianti and the evening papers.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

More often it’s how mistakes turn into fiascoes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

When it comes to recent Wall Street fiascoes, it’s hard to beat AT&T’s adventure with Time Warner.

From Washington Post May 21, 2021

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

Lawmakers repeatedly asked what went wrong in the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank fiascos.

From Washington Post Apr. 2, 2023

But such fiascos availed nothing to save Grandier.

From Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters by H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce




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