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Recent Examples of fiasco Netflix released a documentary on the fiasco in 2019. Marcus Smith, Sacbee.com, 16 Aug. 2025 This fiasco competes with the high-speed rail project for the best way to waste taxpayer dollars. U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2025 The right-wing conspiracy theorist was aghast at Trump’s decision to try to pin blame for the Epstein fiasco on Democrats. Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2025 The fiasco was immediate and public, but, even after the rout, Kennedy kept pressing the agency to assassinate Castro. Keith Gessen, New Yorker, 16 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for fiasco
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Noun
  • Recently published studies about people affected by the Maui and Los Angeles fires showed that beyond affecting heart and lung function and interrupting access to medical care, these climate disasters have led to higher rates of depression and even suicide.
    Lahari Vuppaladhadiam, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • As someone who evacuated but was still directly impacted by the storm, Shepard used her lived experience to influence her research on colonial disasters.
    Essence, Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In May 2018, one of the funicular’s cars derailed due to a serious maintenance failure of its wheels, although the car did not overturn and no one was injured, according to Público, a Portuguese daily national newspaper.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • An incident report submitted to the state by Energy Transfer attributed the pipeline failure to a technician’s errors.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Fiasco.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiasco. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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