fiasco
Example Sentences
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It’s hard for us mortals to know what that’s like, to have the burden to always win, and anything less is labeled a fiasco.
The foam fiasco was just one of the first hiccups since JPMorgan opened a bar inside a Manhattan office building.
After the fiasco with Chapek, Disney turns to someone with a track record of successful succession planning at Morgan Stanley: James Gorman.
From Los Angeles Times
The Partition of India in August 1947 was a colossal, and very British, fiasco.
He overcame a strange late sequence in which he kept swapping helmets because of communication problems, looking as irritated as you would expect Rodgers to look after a technological fiasco like that.
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