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fail

[feyl] / feɪl /




Example Sentences

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The problem is getting the kids who fail the screening to an eye doctor.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

It’s a world in which it is easier to fail than to succeed, a world that a lot of people picking up a paperback for quarter at the drug store would have recognized.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

As is usually the case when Scotland fail to win, minds turn to those either not picked or not available.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

"Within a short period of time, it's going to fail, and we will be there to help it out," he said Sunday.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

From my parents’ awful plan to give up Sir Fig Newton for adoption, to my epic fail with the lemonade stand.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas