failings

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Ten years ago, Peter Cipriano, a graduate student at Baruch College, wrote his master’s thesis about one of New York City’s most tortured civic failings: its inability to fix Penn Station.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026

Or is he a scapegoat for the failings of California firefighters?

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Florida fired a new broadside in a growing rebellion against alleged safety failings of artificial-intelligence chatbots, becoming the first state to file a lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

What later emerged was a series of failings by authorities, including the police and mental health services - which Calocane was known to - prompting calls for a statutory public inquiry.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

“It will make you powerful. But it will also make you weak. Your prowess in combat will be beyond any mortals, but your weaknesses, your failings will increase as well.”

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan