fiasco

He described the fiasco surrounding the proposal as "a sad and reproachable series of events".

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Now, five months later, they can see it is a fiasco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

For some of those companies, the Strait of Hormuz fiasco has been a stock boost.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

We were so excited to assign blame for the Platner fiasco in the first few entries that we forgot to offer anything forward-looking.

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026

Her hands were now planted firmly on her hips and there was a look on her face which seemed to say, ‘I want no part of this fiasco.’

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

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

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

I’d rather cheer for a kooky blockbuster that’s all fiascos, like the midpoint Monty Python-esque sequence where the crew botches the resurrection and interrogation of craggy old corpses.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

This most private public servant finds herself repeatedly ensnared in public fiascos, which makes for a dramatic life story that easily fills 500 pages — and Abedin is only 45.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2021

Napoleon’s policy had become hopelessly discredited by the successive fiascos in Poland, Mexico and Germany, and even the establishment of a liberal constitution in 1869 could not avail to restore confidence in him.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various