as in to fail
to go wrong
their scheme to rob the bank misfired disastrously and landed them all in jail
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Recent Examples of misfire
Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
Overseas, the movie misfired with $2 million from 47 territories for a global launch of $10 million.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 13 Apr. 2025
Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
That original movie was something of a misfire at the time of its release, made for $100 million and only making $121.2M worldwide.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025
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Verb
The purpose of the pardon is to allow for a fudge when the legal system has misfired or overshot the mark.
—Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
Overseas, the movie misfired with $2 million from 47 territories for a global launch of $10 million.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
Yahoo's Buffett-Tesla gag follows a long line of corporate April 1 misfires.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
That original movie was something of a misfire at the time of its release, made for $100 million and only making $121.2M worldwide.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misfire
Verb
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Dix’s conclusion is easily seen in the lives of famous entrepreneurs who failed at various times in their lives.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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Traffic moving north from La Grange, with its 25 mph speed limit, tended to speed up while traffic coming south from Westchester often failed to slow from the 40 mph limit there, officials said.—
Hank Beckman,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The media personality and entrepreneur wore a butter yellow latex dress with a body-con silhouette and a low-cut neckline, paired with summer-ready flip flops.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
12 Apr. 2025
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White House advisors claimed the flip flop was always the strategy, suggesting that the past week of massive tariffs that triggered huge market losses was all for show.—
Dan Mangan,Kevin Breuninger,Jeff Cox,Christina Wilkie,Erin Doherty,Ruxandra Iordache,
CNBC,
9 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Among them, Frank said, were hundreds of women who had developed fertility issues, had miscarried, or had children with defects.—
Maddy Crowell,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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On an episode of the podcast Second Wind, the former Bachelor, 44, spoke about discovering that his wife had miscarried for the first time.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The 101 Ash Street fiasco and the 25% wage increase given to city workers a few years ago both led to this mess.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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The review and a federal investigation into the fiasco both opened and closed without criminal charges against Proctor.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The framework of the mineral deal had stalled in February following a contentious Oval Office meeting between Trump, Vance and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.—
Angela Charlton and Hanna Arhirova,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
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The talks come amid growing concern about Trump's approach to Russia and stalled U.S. efforts to negotiate a ceasefire.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Led by Bruce Willis, Armageddon follows the story of NASA enlisting a group of oil drillers to fly into space, land on a massive asteroid that’s hurtling towards Earth, drill into the rock and insert a nuclear bomb to destroy it.—
Jen Juneau,
People.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Investigations revealed assailants had used a sticky bomb to ignite the fire, causing 4 pilgrim deaths and over 20 injuries.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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Most of those interviews are duds, so good on him for having a sense of humor and rolling with it. — Olivia Harlan Dekker (@OliviaDekker) April 15, 2025 This story was originally published April 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
16 Apr. 2025
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Most of those interviews are duds, so good on him for having a sense of humor and rolling with it.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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With the three-day washout in stocks continuing Monday, traders were still expecting the central bank to wait until June before its next interest rate cut.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
7 Apr. 2025
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Cinema Saviours After years of the washout of the Covid years, the appearance of Oppenheimer and Barbie, appearing in cinemas at the same time gave us the much talked about ‘Barbenheimer’ phenomenon, with many people choosing to see both films on the same day.—
Benny Har-Even,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Misfire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misfire. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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