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mishap

noun as in accident

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The Democrat has acknowledged that he misspoke on numerous occasions about his time in the military, but has said the mishaps were more than a decade old.

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They said they saw co-workers get injured, but they considered such accidents to be among the normal sort of mishaps that occur on construction sites.

If there’s a mishap, baristas need to LATTE: Listen, Apologize, Take action, Thank and Ensure satisfaction.

Later, after a series of quality mishaps, the FAA revoked the same authority for the 787 Dreamliner, which is made in South Carolina.

And a first clean sheet of the season did not come without its mishaps.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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