as in disaster
something that has failed
undaunted by his early fiascoes, he continued his experiments in rocketry
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Recent Examples of fiasco
Politico: Johnson is on shaky ground with Trump after the spending fiasco.
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Kristina Karisch, The Hill, 20 Dec. 2024
Guaranteed there will be no repeat of last year’s Taylor Swift fiasco, when host Jo Koy told a joke at Taylor Swift’s expense in his opening monologue.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 4 Jan. 2025
If the Kings were going to write a script for how to turn Fox into a sympathetic figure in this whole fiasco, this would be it.
—Sam Amick, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
And what was Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump but a fiasco of the highest order?
—The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2024
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Kristina Karisch, The Hill, 20 Dec. 2024
Guaranteed there will be no repeat of last year’s Taylor Swift fiasco, when host Jo Koy told a joke at Taylor Swift’s expense in his opening monologue.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 4 Jan. 2025
If the Kings were going to write a script for how to turn Fox into a sympathetic figure in this whole fiasco, this would be it.
—Sam Amick, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
And what was Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump but a fiasco of the highest order?
—The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Fiasco.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiasco. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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