failure
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After a forgettable World Cup campaign in 2018 and failure to qualify four years later in Qatar, Egypt's greatest player has finally had his moment on the biggest stage.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026
“In the case of Champlain Towers South, however, these margins against failure were too narrow from the start.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
The perfect setting, he explained, for the kind of “literature that emerges after the failure of a historical project.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026
The microbes can cause a constellation of symptoms in humans, from vomiting and diarrhea to sepsis, kidney failure and even death.
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2026
The version of her that was everything put together—hope and hopelessness, curiosity and courage, failure and fight.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
Vocabulary lists containing failure
"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 6
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