fiasco
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This fiasco won’t easily fade into the noise.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
Their relative normalcy, and that of fellow marrieds Amber Morrison and Jordan Faeth, is a soothing contrast to the textbook Fusco fiasco and the rest of the season’s red flag bearers.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
Given the Chapek fiasco, “we wanted to get this right,” Gorman said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
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
I sent for the porter and when he came I told him in Italian to get me a bottle of Cinzano at the wine shop, a fiasco of chianti and the evening papers.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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