misadventure
Example Sentences
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Gen. Jay Garner, the American tasked with overseeing Iraq’s postwar reconstruction, would constitute a towering moment of hubris in a foreign policy misadventure tragically replete with them.
From New York Times
This team also needs reinforcements along the interior defensive line, where stopping the run has become an annual misadventure of inconsistency.
From Los Angeles Times
It is us, kith and kin, born of human misadventure.
From New York Times
He had studied American misadventures in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, the former Yugoslavia and Libya, and aimed to incorporate those insights into the plans.
From New York Times
An inquest was held into Giorgia's death and the coroner recorded the conclusion as misadventure.
From BBC
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