mishaps
Example Sentences
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Here are a few other recent cases of missing Oscars, and the occasional mishaps that led to their recovery.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
A self-assured, naive young woman joins a dysfunctional theater company in Beryl Bainbridge’s darkly comic novel of mishaps and maturity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
A few unnecessarily curt speech interruptions threatened the calm, but mainly, this was a smoothly run machine of a show, devoid of mishaps.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
In fact, the people profiled here are so skilled, their motions so routinely perfect, that the only real surprises are the mishaps.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
The new lab had inherited this tenet from its parent, Ernest Lawrence, who had experienced not a few such mishaps during his career.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
