as in disaster
something that has failed
undaunted by his early fiascoes, he continued his experiments in rocketry
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Recent Examples of fiasco
Four hours after the frustrating fiasco began, the marsh was once again calm.
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Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 18 Dec. 2025
That failed two-point conversion fiasco aside, Sanders had his best performance as a professional player.
—Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
An early brush with the spotlight for Mars involved a viral video recounting a helicopter-rental fiasco.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
As the podcast illuminates, however, the personable founder also found himself with one fiasco after the next.
—Perri Ormont Blumberg, FOXNews.com, 29 Nov. 2025
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More than a year after the disaster, which killed all but two people on board, much is still unclear about why the passenger jet crash landed.—
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The councilwoman emphasized that every neighborhood in Los Angeles is just one disaster from devastation.—
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Patients’ failure to take their medicine as prescribed is a major challenge that contributes to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths and billions of dollars in health care costs annually.—
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Continue reading … SKIDDING TO SAFETY – All plane tires burst on Boeing 767 during harrowing landing failure.—
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“Fiasco.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiasco. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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