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
For some of those companies, the Strait of Hormuz fiasco has been a stock boost.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Some auto job losses are probably an overhang from the electric-vehicle fiasco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The Pentecost next after Lancelot's first quest was almost a fiasco.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
More often it’s how mistakes turn into fiascoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
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 ● Jul. 21, 2025
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
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
Lawmakers repeatedly asked what went wrong in the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank fiascos.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2023
Interviews in Barcelona and with executives around the world suggest that a year’s worth of fiascos has done little to diminish the enthusiasm of true believers.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
She had come, not because she had the slightest sympathetic interest in Musa—on the contrary, she was coldly angry with him—but because she had a horror of fiascos.
From The Lion's Share by Arnold Bennett
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