failure
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Compared with placebo, finerenone reduced the risk of kidney failure or disease progression by 24%.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
Pro-business Paz took office in November promising to resolve the country's worst economic crisis in decades, but his unpopular economic reforms and failure to respond to social demands have roused public ire.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Police bosses admitted not arresting Calocane had been a "serious and systemic and operational failure".
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
The reaction should—but sadly won’t—be studied by journalism schools as an unwitting testament to the failure of the business.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
To me, finishing eighth grade with the second-highest GPA felt like a failure, even though lots of people told me it shouldn’t.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing failure
"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 6
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