flop

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Instead, Mahan’s candidacy was more like Pets.com, a famous e-commerce flop that came to embody the heedless froth of the dot.com bubble.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Google is also having a second go at wearables, as that company recently said it would try again with "smart glasses" more than a decade after its notorious Google Glass flop.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Notably, that film was also a box-office flop, with the lowest-grossing opening weekend of Johnson’s entire career.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

While hardly a flop, the movie will virtually match 2018’s “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” the least-successful film since Disney acquired George Lucas’s science-fiction franchise in 2012.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

I imagined bacterial colonies beginning to creep up, so I used a knife to wiggle it out of the pan and let it flop into the garbage, which had just about reached its limit.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen