fiasco

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

"Given the fiasco around the marking and return of results, we once again question the whole purpose of these outdated tests."

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Interior Minister Laurent Nunez rejected criticism from opposition deputies over the response, insisting: "This is not a fiasco -- we were prepared."

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

Field, Mr. Tabor contends, was to blame for the fiasco, having bought the wrong cable-laying equipment, hired the wrong ships and employed the wrong captain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

The experiment of doing without the 101st had apparently been a fiasco.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

The emergency was the latest in a years-long series of fiascoes within L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025

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

If you’re hosting a fearsome fiesta this year — one that distracts from the daily fearsome fiascoes on the front page of the paper — here are some tips for making spooktacular cocktails.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2019

The good news is the state report makes multiple recommendations that, if followed, should help Florida’s universities avoid future accounting fiascoes, while strengthening boards of trustees and the Board of Governors, which oversees universities.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 13, 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

I’d rather cheer for a kooky blockbuster that’s all fiascos, like the midpoint Monty Python-esque sequence where the crew botches the resurrection and interrogation of craggy old corpses.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

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

After such fiascos the cometary train could never again pose as a world-destroyer.

From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Williams, Henry Smith