CLINKERS Synonyms: 94 Similar and Opposite Words

clinkers

noun

plural of clinker

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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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

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Noun

The system is designed to let robots identify mistakes during operation, adjust their behavior and retain useful experience for subsequent attempts.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
Florida judges, lawmakers and governors perpetuate the patently unreliable assumption that jurors never make mistakes.

— Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of mistakes

Noun

Jane Williams, executive director of California Communities Against Toxics, said Southern California has been rocked by numerous chemical disasters, including the Lineage warehouse fire and the Garden Grove hazardous materials emergency.

— Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
Kimmel had been tapped to serve as master of ceremonies at the fundraiser for the home-sharing behemoth’s nonprofit, which was created in 2020 to provide free temporary housing to people displaced by disasters and other crises.

— Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of disasters

Noun

Verizon’s 2026 healthcare breach snapshot identifies vulnerability exploitation, phishing and credential abuse among initial access routes, alongside persistent staff errors and misconfigurations.

— Aliasgar Dohadwala, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Potential industrial applications This was then used to tell the robot’s limbs what moves to make, all the while monitoring the cube’s state to check and correct for errors.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of errors

Noun

The feat concludes a pursuit that began in 2009, when Zhang first experimented with riding a motorcycle on water and overcame early failures to achieve his latest goal.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
Neeley said the floodwaters were receding but left mud and silt, much of which has been contaminated with sewage because of failures at waste plants.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of failures

Noun

Burks said that leadership blunders are at the problem’s crux.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026
Soon-to-be Cy Young Award winner Jacob Misiorowski held the Rays to just one run in his five innings, but certainly not without the help of some Rays baserunning blunders.

— Ryan Morik OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of blunders

Noun

Indeed, and most embarrassingly, might my interest in preaching be little more than an attempt to assuage my writing disappointments?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
The Barbie show, however, was not without its disappointments for some Péro fans, since the collaboration felt somewhat removed from the label’s familiar world.

— Mayu Saini, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of disappointments

Noun

The two architects had once been friends and collaborators, but their relationship eventually crumbled like so many brittle bricks.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Bangalter and Homem-Christo now join the Beatles and the Spice Girls in the annals of musicians who’ve become plastic bricks.

— Alex Suskind, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of bricks

Noun

If the Greens and the Communists are lobbing bombs at the two major political parties from the extreme left, Libertarians are on the opposite side of the fight--lobbing bombs from the extreme right.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026
Its songs are littered with black holes, disasters, nuclear bombs; there are guttural screams and onslaughts of distorted guitar.

— Marissa Lorusso, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026

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