failure
Example Sentences
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The coroner found no evidence that failures in treatment contributed to her death.
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What in fact kills patients is the ferocious overreaction of their immune systems, which cause widespread blood clotting and organ failure.
Still, all triumphs for the foreseeable future will come with the asterisk of previous failures against the very best.
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“Crops are highly sensitive to when water is delivered, so even short outages can translate into yield losses and crop failure,” he said.
The 50-year-old left Day in a snooker at the start of the frame and the Welshman's failure to escape gifted O'Sullivan a free ball.
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