1
as in defeat
a falling short of one's goals
the home team's unexpected fizzle in that last game cost them the championship
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2
as in disaster
something that has failed
the play was a fizzle, opening and closing the same night
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Recent Examples of fizzle
Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2024
Prioritize Learning and Reinvention The best piece of advice to keep the fizzle and pizzazz alive is to continue learning about your field and always reinvent yourself and your brand.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
Sarah Min, CNBC, 2 Jan. 2025
For example, a team may enthusiastically start an initiative—such as designing a new marketing campaign or implementing a new system—but when challenges arise, momentum fizzles out.
—Nate Bennett, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Noun
The ultimate unraveling of conspiratorial revelations is a big fizzle.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2024
Prioritize Learning and Reinvention The best piece of advice to keep the fizzle and pizzazz alive is to continue learning about your field and always reinvent yourself and your brand.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
Verb
The major averages fizzled at the finish line last year, following a monster performance.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 2 Jan. 2025
For example, a team may enthusiastically start an initiative—such as designing a new marketing campaign or implementing a new system—but when challenges arise, momentum fizzles out.
—Nate Bennett, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for fizzle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fizzle
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Despite Fritz’s defeat, there remains a healthy contingent of US participants in the tournament, with Monfils facing American Ben Shelton in the fourth round on Monday.—
Matias Grez,
CNN,
18 Jan. 2025
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Their first defeat since December 7 must be quickly consigned to history and Howe’s team must learn how to better recover from setbacks at home.—
Chris Waugh,
The Athletic,
18 Jan. 2025
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Another would allow for disaster housing to transition into affordable housing.—
Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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As the potential new lead of the nation's federal national disaster response, Noem may also face questions about her handling of devastating floods in her state.—
Lexie Schapitl,
NPR,
17 Jan. 2025
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Ross Crates, an ecologist at the Australian National University who was not involved in the study, noted that other research had shown that some birds hissed to ward off predators to their nests.—
Kate Golembiewski,
New York Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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The hissing wind pushed black smoke down Temescal Canyon, sending residents choking toward the beach.—
Jack Flemming,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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The building’s collapse was also one of the deadliest structural engineering failures in United States history.—
Laura Kiniry,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Jan. 2025
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Environmental groups warned the order could hasten ecological collapse in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.—
Ari Plachta,
Sacramento Bee,
27 Jan. 2025
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That has received sharp rebuke from California leaders and water experts who point out that Los Angeles’ water supply is flush after two rainy years, and statewide water supply questions have no relationship to municipal water system failures during the Palisades fire.—
Ari Plachta,
Sacramento Bee,
25 Jan. 2025
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The first crisis was marked by a slew of failures among banks and thrifts in the early 1980s.—
Russ Wiles,
USA TODAY,
24 Jan. 2025
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The most common countermeasures are hiring contractors to re-install piles into the ground in the spring or bubbling – propeller fans blowing warm water from the bottom up, which keep an area ice-free.—
Lauren Carpenter,
USA TODAY,
18 Jan. 2025
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Some springs no longer bubble up from the aquifer and even the largest are now seeing their flow steadily reduced.—
Greg Allen,
NPR,
17 Jan. 2025
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police suspect a motorcycle driver was speeding and impaired during a crash that killed two people and injured two others, according to a news release.—
Josh Bergeron,
Charlotte Observer,
19 Jan. 2025
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Now, the gulf left by Khun Vichai’s tragic death in the 2018 helicopter crash has never seemed bigger.—
Rob Tanner,
The Athletic,
19 Jan. 2025
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And yet Burns often got the hardest assignments, the ones with big potential rewards but that were more likely to end in disappointment, or at least ambiguity.—
Shane Harris,
The Atlantic,
17 Jan. 2025
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Söderblom’s bounce-back game ended in disappointment.—
Phil Thompson,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Fizzle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fizzle. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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