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Some trucking companies have ceased doing business, and many more will likely fail if high fuel costs do not subside soon.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Legal scholars have debated whether surrogates should pay legal damages if they fail to honor a contractual abortion provision, surrender payments remaining on the contract, or even pay back money they already received.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
I was reminded of the reality TV show “Nailed It!,” in which amateur bakers fail spectacularly to reproduce complex cakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
It is expected to be the first day since 29 June when temperatures will fail to reach 25C anywhere in the UK.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Both Haldeman and Henry seem to have an idea—which I think is mistaken—that even if we fail in Vietnam we can still survive politically,” the president wrote in his diary.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
In its contracts, Solaris must refund the customer’s fees when it fails to deliver power and must also cover the cost of repairing or replacing equipment, according to a public filing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
SK Hynix said the current share price fails to reflect its “intrinsic value.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Lots of parents successfully use the CMS, but when the system fails the consequences can be huge for parents and children.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
If the deal fails to close by June 4, Paramount would have to pay Warner Bros. a $7-billion breakup fee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
At the zeros of the universe, logic fails.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Each month, they were sent a mailer promoting the “Selection of the Month,” and if the customer failed to return the rejection form, Columbia House would send them the new release and charge their account.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
The pair -- dubbed "the heir and the spare" from an early age -- have failed to put aside their differences, despite their father King Charles III's cancer diagnosis.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Lucas Digne was sold to Paris St-Germain and Villa must also find a solution for goalkeeper Emi Martinez after his failed move to Juventus and the signing of his replacement - Zion Suzuki.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The settlement includes the Gill lawsuit, in which a jury ordered Abbott to pay $495 million after finding it failed to warn of bowel disease risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
And she started with the truth: “My birth father was Native. I have family beyond the parents who failed me. You have family beyond me and the ways I failed you.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz fired his economy minister on Friday after legislators voted to remove him for failing to appear before Congress to answer questions about his handling of a severe economic crisis.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
They are the actions of a spoiled brat trying, and failing, to cover up the stench of losing.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
However, the price has reduced significantly and after failing in their pursuit of Matheus Fernandes earlier this summer, United have decided to revisit Baleba.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Then, in “The Closing of the American Mind,” Allan Bloom described the educational denouement: universities failing to transmit serious understanding of the Western inheritance while teaching students to distrust its claims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
President Buchanan, utterly failing to understand his country’s deep divisions, tried to subdue public opinion by labeling slavery’s expansion “a matter of but little practical importance.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
