as in disaster
something that has failed
undaunted by his early fiascoes, he continued his experiments in rocketry
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Additionally, Sonos saw numerous executive changes following the app fiasco, including the departure of the CEO who greenlit the streaming box, Patrick Spence.
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Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2025
The Super Bowl fiasco should be a cautionary tale to all companies — that doing business with Ye is bad business.
—David Renzer, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2025
No one considering the possibility of asbestos given the Ash Street fiasco?
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2025
Their first evening there is a bit of a fiasco: They get swept into the orbit of a hedonistic couple (played by Roberto Aguire and Marianna Burelli), who turn out to be married to different people, and are rather aggressively predatory swinger types besides.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
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Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2025
The Super Bowl fiasco should be a cautionary tale to all companies — that doing business with Ye is bad business.
—David Renzer, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2025
No one considering the possibility of asbestos given the Ash Street fiasco?
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2025
Their first evening there is a bit of a fiasco: They get swept into the orbit of a hedonistic couple (played by Roberto Aguire and Marianna Burelli), who turn out to be married to different people, and are rather aggressively predatory swinger types besides.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Fiasco.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiasco. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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