nonstarters

noun

plural of nonstarter
as in losers

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  1. losers
  2. bombs
  3. washouts
  4. flops
  5. disasters
  6. catastrophes
  7. clinkers
  8. fiascoes
Noun
  • Ryan O'Reilly and Steven Stamkos scored, and Juuse Saros made 30 saves for Nashville, losers of three straight.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The selling in recent days, however, has intensified on worries about the AI trade, making the likes of Micron among our biggest losers week-to-date and defensives such as Cardinal Health among our biggest weekly winners.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of losers
Noun
  • The suspect is said to have organized and carried out the detonation of at least four bombs between around 31 to 62 pounds at a depth of 230 feet to 263 feet near the Danish island of Bornholm.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Zelensky does not appear to be in a rush to hold elections and the public has shown little enthusiasm for heading to the polls as bombs fly overhead.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of bombs
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  • Officials said special attention will be given to gravel roads that could be susceptible to washouts and erosion.
    — Detroit Free Press, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • But in a world where a few basis points separates legends from washouts, a 10-point edge is an enormous windfall for anyone who trusted Kalshi’s numbers over those crunched by CME, the giant futures-exchange operator.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of washouts
Noun
  • Finally, Vic gives up on being wheelbarrowed and full-body flops on the floor with only their feet under the velvet rope.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026
  • But after Annapurna moved from financing its movies to distributing them in 2017, costs rose, flops piled up, and Megan Ellison scaled back her ambitions.
    — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of flops
Noun
  • 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
Definition of disasters
Noun
  • Fee’s attempt to serve as savior will only trigger further catastrophes.
    — Garth Greenwell, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2026
  • An institution built explicitly to neutralize biological catastrophes is now at the center of one.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of catastrophes
Noun
  • Modern brick kilns are designed to minimize or eliminate clinkers.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
  • But there are no outright clinkers in the bunch, either.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Definition of clinkers
Noun
  • 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
Definition of fiascoes
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“Nonstarters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonstarters. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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