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fiasco

[fee-as-koh, -ah-skoh] / fiˈæs koʊ, -ˈɑ skoʊ /


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

From MarketWatch Aug. 1, 2026

Zidane is finding Les Bleus in immeasurably better shape than his predecessor did at the start of his own tenure, at which point the wounds of the 2010 World Cup fiasco were still fresh.

From BBC Jul. 28, 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

The failure of the hugely competitive exam, along with a separate marking fiasco in high school tests, sparked outrage and fuelled youth protests demanding the education minister's resignation.

From Barron's Jun. 16, 2026

After I had explained the whole Renee Albert tutorial fiasco, he had felt sorry for his pathetic eldest boy.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick

More often it’s how mistakes turn into fiascoes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

One can only hope that these are growing pains, that as with early dubbing fiascoes, the streaming services will realize that writing and editing around commercials is an art form in itself.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 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

From failed gender reveal to photo-shoot flops, read on for nine of the funniest parenting fiascoes that made headlines this year.

From Fox News Dec. 29, 2019

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

The financial fiascos weren’t enough to cancel the Crypties.

From New York Times Dec. 1, 2022

Hudson’s detractors point to the public-relations fiascos the group suffered under her watch, from #OscarsSoWhite to the “Moonlight”/“La La Land” envelope snafu to the Will Smith Slap.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2022

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

But such fiascos availed nothing to save Grandier.

From Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters by H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce




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