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fiascos

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If the fiascos Jobs encountered were largely of his own making, the successes often had to do with luck.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

One would think fiascos like this would cure lawyers of their reliance on artificial intelligence chatbots to do their work for them.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2025

The toughness of Eyob Faniel of Italy, who placed third in the men’s race after enduring 56 hours of travel — and various travel fiascos — from his training base in Kenya last week.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2021

This most private public servant finds herself repeatedly ensnared in public fiascos, which makes for a dramatic life story that easily fills 500 pages — and Abedin is only 45.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2021

Other experiments followed at intervals, most of which were fiascos, although some were partially successful.

From Stella Fregelius by Haggard, Henry Rider