mishaps
Example Sentences
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Any one of those mishaps could sink one or more European economies—and, in the case of the Iran war energy-price spikes, they might.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Here are a few other recent cases of missing Oscars, and the occasional mishaps that led to their recovery.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
A self-assured, naive young woman joins a dysfunctional theater company in Beryl Bainbridge’s darkly comic novel of mishaps and maturity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
A few unnecessarily curt speech interruptions threatened the calm, but mainly, this was a smoothly run machine of a show, devoid of mishaps.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
The names of the dead were as important as the names of the living, as every loss from disease and suicide—and the other mishaps labeled as such for accounting purposes—needed to be justified to employers.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
