as in blunders
somewhat informal a problem that makes a situation difficult or confusing A major scheduling snafu led to two meetings starting at the same time.
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Recent Examples of snafus Coachella usually hits a few visa snafus every year (this year, the English electronic artist Tourist had to cancel. —
Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026 Now that it has been fully restored, keep your wooden cutting board in tip-top shape by avoiding these common snafus. —Staff Author, Martha Stewart, 31 Mar. 2026 Problems with the city’s rollout of the trash and Balboa Park parking programs didn’t help, and further built on City Hall’s history of operational snafus and policy blunders. —Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026 With the wide use of Waymo across the country, there have been snafus that some customers have brought up through the years. —Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 12 Mar. 2026 Still, the rocket has faced its fair share of setbacks and snafus as the company moves to testing version 3 of the giant rocket. —Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 12 Mar. 2026 United are now clever enough to use the second half of matches to avoid any snafus a slow first half put them in. —Carl Anka, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026 Amid communication snafus, some residents were incorrectly told their lights were back on. —Bracey Harris, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026 That’s the best way to avoid any snafus. —Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2026
Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026 Now that it has been fully restored, keep your wooden cutting board in tip-top shape by avoiding these common snafus. —Staff Author, Martha Stewart, 31 Mar. 2026 Problems with the city’s rollout of the trash and Balboa Park parking programs didn’t help, and further built on City Hall’s history of operational snafus and policy blunders. —Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026 With the wide use of Waymo across the country, there have been snafus that some customers have brought up through the years. —Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 12 Mar. 2026 Still, the rocket has faced its fair share of setbacks and snafus as the company moves to testing version 3 of the giant rocket. —Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 12 Mar. 2026 United are now clever enough to use the second half of matches to avoid any snafus a slow first half put them in. —Carl Anka, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026 Amid communication snafus, some residents were incorrectly told their lights were back on. —Bracey Harris, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026 That’s the best way to avoid any snafus. —Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snafus
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Many similar blunders have been recorded in years past, including arguably the worst example, a disastrous decision three decades ago to overhaul how electricity was produced, distributed and priced.— Dan Walters, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2026
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Several real estate blunders exacerbated the situation.— Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
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Defensively, Lindor keeps making uncharacteristic mental mistakes, and the Mets don’t seem to have an answer for those either.— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2026
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Ludvig Aberg swapped out some sloppy mistakes at the Masters with pure iron play at Harbour Town in warm, swirling wind that produced an 8-under 63 for a one-shot lead Thursday in the RBC Heritage.— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
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Arize tests and monitors RAG pipelines as well as the agents and applications built on them—debugging and hunting down errors and hallucinations.— Erik German, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
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Marlins catcher Agustín Ramírez and first baseman Connor Norby made errors, raising Miami's NL-high total to 15 in 15 games.— CBS News, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
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“Snafus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/snafus. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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