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as in disaster
something that has failed
a real clunker, the movie was soon littering the shelves of video stores everywhere
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Recent Examples of clunker
Perhaps the 6-11 clunker was inevitable in some ways after five Super Bowl appearances in six seasons — and three straight — left the Chiefs playing 19 postseason games in that span.
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Kansas City Star,
17 Apr. 2026
Randy Vásquez just had his first clunker on Wednesday after allowing two runs over his first three starts.
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Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
The team really made their clunker count, getting blasted 4-0 at home by El Paso Locomotive FC on Saturday.
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Kels Dayton,
Hartford Courant,
12 Apr. 2026
The Final Four was a bit of a clunker compared to the rest of the tournament, which was fantastic.
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Kirk Bohls,
Houston Chronicle,
7 Apr. 2026
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Kansas City Star,
17 Apr. 2026
Randy Vásquez just had his first clunker on Wednesday after allowing two runs over his first three starts.
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Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
The team really made their clunker count, getting blasted 4-0 at home by El Paso Locomotive FC on Saturday.
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Kels Dayton,
Hartford Courant,
12 Apr. 2026
The Final Four was a bit of a clunker compared to the rest of the tournament, which was fantastic.
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Kirk Bohls,
Houston Chronicle,
7 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clunker
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Merchandise was displayed in or atop packing crates and upended barrels.
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In a previous life, the wooden crate had been used by artist Robert Rauschenberg, widely regarded as the father of assemblage art in the United States, to house and transport his paintings before Basquiat incorporated it into his own work.
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Rodríguez said numerous public officials died in the disaster, including security personnel, municipal employees and military officers.
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The Boyle Heights blaze, similar to the Eaton and Palisades fires, has revealed the region’s air monitoring can’t always tell people what they’ve been exposed to in a disaster.
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Taking the midway point of those numbers, an opening weekend of $45 million would be a monumental failure.
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Then came this spring’s historic and devastating floods across northern Michigan — in some areas, for the first time anyone can remember — swamping homes, pushing dams to the brink of failure and washing out roadways.
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In the 30 years following the tune’s release, disappointment has only continued to plague the Three Lions.
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The crowd was filled with Knicks fans, many of whom bought tickets from 76ers’ supporters who were accustomed to postseason disappointment.
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The losers are the automakers still leaving accessories to the dealer, where the margin quietly bleeds away.
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That is a big risk investors take when trying to find the winners and losers within the biotech sector.
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Days before the five-year anniversary of the 2021 building collapse that killed 98 people in Surfside, the federal government has published findings that determined the structure of the Champlain Towers South condominium started failing about three weeks before the catastrophe.
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Chile introduced a tax deduction for catastrophe insurance premiums and resilience retrofit investment.
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“Clunker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clunker. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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