as in fails
to go wrong
their scheme to rob the bank misfired disastrously and landed them all in jail
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Recent Examples of misfires
Armando Salguero Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2026
Sig Sauer faces a class action suit over claims that its P320 pistol misfires.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Apr. 2026
And research into why the brain misfires.
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Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
27 Mar. 2026
That optimism may be a bit misguided, considering the history of emerging sports league misfires.
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Justin Birnbaum,
Sportico.com,
18 Mar. 2026
The brain misfires on what feels charged or taboo.
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Peter White,
Deadline,
24 Feb. 2026
As Wiener, the show’s curator, walks me through, her narration inevitably turns into a litany of the artist’s almosts, misfires, and losses.
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Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
4 Feb. 2026
There were issues with intake manifold leaks, exhaust manifold cracking, coolant leaks, engine misfires due to corrosion, and water in the spark plug holes.
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John Paul,
The Providence Journal,
9 Jan. 2026
In a bid to make Curtis jealous, Castor brings home from the nightclub the 20something Omar for an overnight hookup, but that misfires spectacularly.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Nov. 2025
Verb
But the Raiders organization is rife with quarterback misfires in its recent history.
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Armando Salguero Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2026
Sig Sauer faces a class action suit over claims that its P320 pistol misfires.
—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Apr. 2026
And research into why the brain misfires.
—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
27 Mar. 2026
That optimism may be a bit misguided, considering the history of emerging sports league misfires.
—
Justin Birnbaum,
Sportico.com,
18 Mar. 2026
The brain misfires on what feels charged or taboo.
—
Peter White,
Deadline,
24 Feb. 2026
As Wiener, the show’s curator, walks me through, her narration inevitably turns into a litany of the artist’s almosts, misfires, and losses.
—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
4 Feb. 2026
There were issues with intake manifold leaks, exhaust manifold cracking, coolant leaks, engine misfires due to corrosion, and water in the spark plug holes.
—
John Paul,
The Providence Journal,
9 Jan. 2026
In a bid to make Curtis jealous, Castor brings home from the nightclub the 20something Omar for an overnight hookup, but that misfires spectacularly.
—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misfires
Verb
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Tapping into the sporting zeitgeist, the slapstick animation, sees Daffy Duck confounded when Elmer Fudd fails to turn up for duck hunting season.
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An extended car warranty can save electric vehicle (EV) owners thousands of dollars when a critical component, such as an electric motor or battery management system, fails unexpectedly.
Noun
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All the lasers, bombs and explosions that Fox’s Arwing navigates look ultra high-definition without turning into the overwhelming bullet-hell of other shooters.
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Sharp was one of my favorite sleepers, a 3-and-D guard who launches bombs and, despite being undersized, willingly checks top guards and wings.
Verb
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Not stalls the standard 12-by-12 feet of other ranches but 14 feet square to give horses more room to move around naturally.
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This process stalls improvements for years.
Noun
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Let’s make a little detour here to talk about some of the logistics of these monumental computing systems, with the understanding that ENIAC, built in the middle of the twentieth century, ran at about 500 flops.
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Those numbers, which dribble out over the weekend and are sometimes strategically leaked to show momentum (or, in some cases, flops-in-waiting), form the backbone of the entertainment industry’s narrative-driving machine.
Verb
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Just after a third pregnancy also miscarries, Aje meets a young woman named Mayra in a hospital waiting room and the two get talking.
Noun
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The northwestern states of Aragua, Carabobo and Falcón have also been affected, with some areas reporting power failures, Rodríguez said.
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But Ramaphosa also conceded that there had been failures in South Africa's border control.
Verb
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But the story misses a scary thing about Big Tech.
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When a race team misses a shipment, the impact is immediate.
Noun
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Much like the stock market as a whole, a successful investment portfolio typically has exceptional stocks that more than overcome the subpar returns of the duds.
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Perhaps the biggest duds of this campaign season have been San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
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“Misfires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misfires. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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