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fiascoes

noun

plural of fiasco

as in disasters

something that has failed undaunted by his early fiascoes, he continued his experiments in rocketry

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Recent Examples of fiascoes Contained within all these fiascoes is a subtly different conservative movement. — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026 Trump is the most corrupt and scandal-plagued president since Nixon; indeed, his fiascoes eclipse Nixon’s, but many of them remain mostly or somewhat hidden, thanks in part to a much more acquiescent Republican Congress than the one Nixon had. — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2026 So officials will have to stick with tried-and-true absentee-voting techniques, improving them to avoid the fiascoes of the recent past. — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Sep. 2020

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Its chief instructor, Wang Kuanghan, has said plans are underway to open five more centers in China within three years, expanding the simulations to other disasters, including fires and earthquakes.

— Lauryn Higgins, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
The administration initially talked about abolishing the agency, arguing that states and communities could deal with disasters on their own.

— Dana R. Fisher, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026

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The question confronting Israel and its international partners is not simply whether money should flow into Gaza, but also who controls it—and whether the next arrangement will avoid the failures of the last.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
The author argued that the unrest reflected deeper failures by France’s political establishment.

— Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026

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