mishap
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Mishap No. 1: Trailing by three points in the first quarter, Washington drove it down to Colorado’s 3, then on first and goal, quarterback Dylan Morris fumbled the snap.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2021
A two-sentence story published four days later in The New York Times under the headline "Dylan Hurt in Cycle Mishap" said he was under a doctor's care.
From US News • Jul. 28, 2016
He steps into the chute wearing a white stetson and mounts a bull called Mishap.
From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2016
Unfamiliarity hampers crew coordination, and the Mishap Mission Commander was slow to intervene in this mishap.
From Time • Oct. 30, 2013
Mishap passed by but few of the remoter homes found unprepared with fuel, and Christmas day, deceitfully fair, dawned on many homes that were to be fatherless, motherless, or robbed of a first-born.
From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson
Vocabulary lists containing mishap
Power Prefix: mis-
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