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

And his low conversation ratio from 27 poles is almost entirely down to team failings rather than driver.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 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

He doesn’t want to talk about it, and he avoids any discussion involving Mother’s failings.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank