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
The episode begins with the Napiers and their team dealing with a flooding fiasco after heavy rain from the night before led to a water leak that damaged four rooms.
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Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 1 June 2026
The Department of Labor and Employment’s financial monitoring unit issued Spesshardt an internal infraction for his role in the GPS contract fiasco.
—Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
Not only a defeat, not only a fiasco.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 25 May 2026
One person was arrested following the fiery fiasco.
—Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026
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Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 1 June 2026
The Department of Labor and Employment’s financial monitoring unit issued Spesshardt an internal infraction for his role in the GPS contract fiasco.
—Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
Not only a defeat, not only a fiasco.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 25 May 2026
One person was arrested following the fiery fiasco.
—Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for fiasco
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiasco
Noun
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Aemond is a murderer, Aegon is a rapist; if either of them ends up on the Iron Throne for good, that would be a disaster.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
19 June 2026
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On the dusty backroads of Radiator Springs, where Lightning McQueen and his pals live, a shower of meteors threatened to bring destruction upon the quarter-size cars in a scene that disaster movie king Roland Emmerich would endorse.—
Sandra Gonzalez,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
Noun
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Taking the midway point of those numbers, an opening weekend of $45 million would be a monumental failure.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
23 June 2026
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Then came this spring’s historic and devastating floods across northern Michigan — in some areas, for the first time anyone can remember — swamping homes, pushing dams to the brink of failure and washing out roadways.—
Tammy Webber,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
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Days before the five-year anniversary of the 2021 building collapse that killed 98 people in Surfside, the federal government has published findings that determined the structure of the Champlain Towers South condominium started failing about three weeks before the catastrophe.—
Aaron Leibowitz,
Miami Herald,
23 June 2026
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Chile introduced a tax deduction for catastrophe insurance premiums and resilience retrofit investment.—
Nina Seega,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
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“Fiasco.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiasco. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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