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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

“This edict, combined with the current delay fiasco, has built a ‘wall’ for employers and employees who are already in the process of stamping.”

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

That was a long way of getting to the World Cup ticket fiasco, which has been both predictable and hilarious.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

And on Tuesday, Johnson was confronted with his own leaked messages to his advisers, in which he suggested he wanted to fire those in the DfE after the exam results fiasco of August 2020.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2025

She would be her normal gracious self and they would drink wine and talk about his book and her new zinnias and Igbo-Ukwu art and the Western Region elections fiasco.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie