fiasco
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Artan's plight is the latest fiasco to hit the World Cup, with Iran's football federation stating on Tuesday that their allocation of fan tickets for the group stage has been revoked.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
Another victim of the pit lane penalty fiasco but overall a decent points haul for the McLaren man.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
Notice something else: The Bay of Pigs fiasco produced the Cuban Missile Crisis 18 months later, and only then a new stability.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
The 2019 screen fiasco, which found countless ways to humiliate a cast that included Taylor Swift and Judi Dench, gave kitsch a bad name.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
The first trial, of a Los Alamos device code-named Bravo, was a fiasco, though one that brought a sort of perverse credit to the Los Alamos lab.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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