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mishap

noun as in accident

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

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

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

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If that was a defensive mishap, the second goal was a defensive calamity.

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He was one of those umpires to whom mishaps would occur.

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

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