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
The optimal number is zero, to judge from a new report into the fiasco of a Federal Reserve building project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
For some of those companies, the Strait of Hormuz fiasco has been a stock boost.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
It was because of him that the spray-painting fiasco had made the newspaper and gotten Curly into hot water with the Mother Paula’s company.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
The fiascoes pile up during his full-tilt quest to achieve his dream of being a world champion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Despite the litany of fiascoes over the last few years, probation leaders still argued in court filings that Bonta had gone too far.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
The Raider has, by all reports, been a well-managed program, at least compared with other Air Force procurement fiascoes.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2022
To celebrate such mistakes, mishaps and melees, read on for 10 of the funniest parenting fiascoes that made headlines this year.
From Fox News ● Dec. 30, 2020
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
Live Nation, the group behind Ticketmaster and countless controversies surrounding ticket fiascos, is facing a Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit later this week.
From Salon ● May 23, 2024
Lawmakers repeatedly asked what went wrong in the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank fiascos.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2023
Your making a touchdown for the other eleven, by running the wrong way with the pigskin, your hilarious fiascos in every sport, your home-run with the bases full, on a strike-out-are specters to haunt you.
From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by J. Raymond Elderdice
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