failure
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What galls me is the failure to identify one of the — certainly not the only — bedrock reasons some people go through life with little or no money: mismanagement.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
The summit’s most lamentable lapse was its failure to take even a small step toward putting guardrails on artificial intelligence.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026
The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has ordered an urgent review by Border Security Command, calling the failure to intercept the two boats "not acceptable".
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
What a failure of judgment, of care; what a blunder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The wolf winced, though in pain or just at the memory of his failure, Jack couldn’t tell.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
The author characteristically turns the failures into “learning moments,” and the phenomenal successes are recounted with hand-to-the-heart humility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
All the recent L.A. mayors I’ve known had their faults and failures, whether the task was filling potholes, building out transit or addressing the high cost of housing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
He also called for "speedy incident reporting, classification, and reporting protocols so the world can learn from failures before they become catastrophes".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Water treatment and power plants struggle with ash contamination, equipment failures, lack of spare parts and overwhelming demand, disrupting essential medical and industrial processes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
No one wanted to broadcast their failures in responsibility.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Vocabulary lists containing failure
"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 6
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