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clinkers

noun

plural of clinker
1
as in mistakes
an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy a documentary that had such clinkers as a reference to Iran as an Arab nation

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2
as in disasters
something that has failed all of the toy company's new offerings for the Christmas season proved to be clinkers

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Recent Examples of clinkers Modern brick kilns are designed to minimize or eliminate clinkers. — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026 But there are no outright clinkers in the bunch, either. — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clinkers
  1. mistakes
  2. disasters
  3. errors
  4. failures
  5. blunders
  6. disappointments
  7. bricks
  8. bombs
Noun
  • Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta don’t make those mistakes, as their popular jeans, knits, and tees attest.
    — Vogue, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2026
  • So many individual mistakes litter their six games so far this season.
    — Chris McKenna, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of mistakes
Noun
  • Getting an accurate count of immigrants of various statuses is useful when assigning resources for public health emergencies or natural or human-made disasters.
    — Terry Tang, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The chapter also examines military disasters caused not by geography but by failures of leadership, organization, discipline, and judgment.
    — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of disasters
Noun
  • Most residual errors identified in recent evaluations fall into mild-to-moderate severity when the note gets properly reviewed.
    — Pat Williams, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Skilled accounts earned consistent profits by reacting more quickly to publicly available news, arbitraging inconsistent pricing across related contracts and trading against behavioral errors.
    — Matthew Tan, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of errors
Noun
  • Alpha has achieved several successful launches, but setbacks and failures have kept Firefly from establishing a routine launch cadence.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The convention, a novelty that doesn’t involve the party business typical of a gathering in a presidential year, is expected to contrast what the party sees as GOP wins, with Trump at the helm, against Democratic failures.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of failures
Noun
  • There were mighty blunders off the field too under Jarmond, including an email that went out to donors that came with an attachment revealing personal information and spending tallies of the department’s biggest donors.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Common Mistakes When Cleaning Earbuds Take special care to avoid damaging your earbuds by avoiding these common blunders.
    — Emily Hayes, Martha Stewart, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of blunders
Noun
  • There were five five-star QBs in that class, of which only one, Texas’s Arch Manning, remains at his original school, and two, Jackson Arnold and Malachi Nelson, have been major disappointments.
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Earnings disappointments led to our exits from Procter & Gamble and Dover .
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of disappointments
Noun
  • By nightfall, the protests turned violent, people hurling bricks and taking down the American flag in favor of the Confederate colors.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
  • More research required Most space construction ideas use melting local rock into bricks, which consumes massive amounts of energy.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of bricks
Noun
  • Josh Baker and fellow investigative journalist Sara Obeidat are in Damascus as bombs fall and gunfights break out.
    — Josh Baker, NPR, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Shahzad said he was trained by the Pakistani Taliban on how to make bombs.
    — Mark Morales, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of bombs

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“Clinkers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clinkers. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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