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Blue Origin has been looking to move past that misfire and begin launching satellites for Amazon.com.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

These studies weren’t necessarily wrong, but I suspect they were snapshots in time that might have lured some into concluding the entire effort was destined to misfire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

Discovery three years ago was a misfire that eroded the value of some of the industry’s most premium brands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025

"Even a cinematic maestro occasionally musters up a misfire," the Razzies said, in a press release announcing Coppola's win.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025

Anyone who knows anything about firearms will tell you that a 9mm handgun cannot misfire in the way that gun did.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

Even if Pangram misfires on a given op-ed, the study’s broader pattern—that A.I. use is showing up across major newspaper opinion pages, his own included—is impossible to argue with.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

Intel has had strategic misfires for decades, Meeks said, and government support won’t be enough to save it.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

For each of those successes, there are several messy misfires: The wan camp of “The Politician.”

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026

For all its awards misfires, “Wicked: For Good” was still a resounding success for Universal Pictures, which stands to gain heavily from the “Wicked” films’ combined worldwide gross of almost $1.3 billion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

“Don’t be so sure—and don’t be so hard on yourself, kid. The transporter misfires now and again, but Ma don’t make mistakes. Could be this is all part of her plan.”

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott

Overall the Lakers committed 21 more turnovers, giving up 26 points off the mistakes while paying dearly for every errant dribble or misfired pass against the swarming Thunder defenders.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

And hence misfired plays like this one, in which collaboration among gifted artists results only in a work of logorrheic banality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

And having misfired of late, polls suggest that Japan's first woman Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi might manage to bring back the glory days with a thumping election win on Sunday.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

Cohen says that progressives have misfired in their decision to challenge him.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2025

Got up yesterday and motor misfired, had to make quick landing in a bayou and haul out machine myself aided by scared kids.

From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Lewis, Sinclair

Brainwashing isn’t enough: “To turn you into a willful collaborator, I need to also attack your emotional system. Empathy is an adaptive virtue. Suicidal empathy is the misfiring of this adaptive process.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

A misfiring and cramping Jannik Sinner admitted Saturday he "got lucky" after dropping a rare set before taming American underdog Eliot Spizzirri in furnace-like heat to make the last 16 at the Australian Open.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

Vance has been repeatedly ratioed on X ever since, a small but telling sign that the usual outrage machine is misfiring.

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026

They look even better when you factor in that only two of those games have been at home - with a previously impotent and misfiring team putting eight goals past Falkirk and Kilmarnock.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025

And then, nine years later, Maria Teresa, his final desperate attempt at a boy misfiring.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez