failure
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The failure isn’t that some families can choose a good school, but that too many can’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
His parents were told Riley was heading towards liver failure, and they watched as his condition deteriorated to the point where he was delirious and hallucinating.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
A contrasting perspective holds that dystopian and cautionary science fiction serves an essential purpose by exposing the consequences of reckless behavior, political failure and technological overreach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Prolonged damage can lead to incontinence or uncontrolled peeing, and even kidney failure.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Amy’s lecture put the matter in a new light, and for the first time it did look weak and selfish to lose heart at the first failure, and shut himself up in moody indifference.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Water treatment and power plants struggle with ash contamination, equipment failures, lack of spare parts and overwhelming demand, disrupting essential medical and industrial processes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
They talk to David Wallace Lockhart about their party’s failures, the route to indyref2 and guilty pleasures.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
A Navy investigation identified fatigue, stress, undermanning, training gaps and leadership failures among the ship’s crew.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Health Secretary Yvette Cooper said she was "profoundly sorry" on behalf of the government for the failures set out in the report.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
His failures had made him a recluse, but people remembered the vulnerable boy he had once been.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
Vocabulary lists containing failure
"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 6
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