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Recent Examples of fiasco Since the most recent online fiasco, Offset has deactivated his social accounts. Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 4 June 2025 Not only does Israel not have spare luxury jets lying around to fob off on the American president, but the country took nine years to retrofit and launch its own version of Air Force One, and the process was a national fiasco. Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 22 May 2025 The meeting with Cohen is a predictable fiasco, like Fielder’s cringe-comedy version of the guerrilla pranks Sacha Baron Cohen used to pull on camera-hungry politicians for Da Ali G Show. Scott Tobias, Vulture, 19 May 2025 The market mayhem wasn't triggered by some mysterious economic force—it's directly connected to mounting anxiety over the federal deficit and the impending fiscal fiasco that Trump and his congressional enablers are planning. Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for fiasco
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Noun
  • By ordering these strikes, Trump acted without congressional approval and in contradiction to his campaign promise to avoid the kind of disasters experienced in Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
  • One of the factors that exacerbated the Chernobyl disaster was a design flaw within the nuclear reactor that exploded, Bernstein said, adding that the design is no longer used.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • Ensure your team members learn how to code securely, promote an approach where nobody is blamed after a failure, and value those who report issues quickly.
    Sai Sandeep Ogety, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Extreme heat can cause wiring insulation to deteriorate faster, leading to shorts or failures in electrical components.
    Bethany Wales, Sacbee.com, 30 June 2025

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“Fiasco.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiasco. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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