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Of course, fears of a grid failure are not new, but recent events such as the mass blackout in Spain, Portugal and south-western France in April 2025 have pushed it up the agenda.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

It is said to explore themes such as success, failure, love, ageing and the pain of coming to terms with who you really are.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Turning away from the failure of his utopian dreams, Usnavy becomes obsessed with a family heirloom, a lamp that brings him comforting visions of “a vibrant African moon”—to the scorn of his friends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Chronic diastolic congestive heart failure was an underlying cause, and acute renal failure was also listed as a significant contributing condition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

“I wasn’t discouraged by the failure of the Fielding job to produce results,” Gordon Liddy would later explain.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Shares in the Swiss drugmaker have fully recovered from recent clinical-trial failures, and investors now await new midterm targets due to be announced at an event later this month, the analyst says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

It admitted a number of maintenance and inspection failures before the crash, as well as failing to warn the driver that part of the track was unsafe, or tell him to reduce his speed.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

He pointed to the Stuxnet virus in 2010, which caused a series of failures in Iran's centrifuge fleet used for uranium enrichment, as a past example.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

A hospital trust has taken full responsibility for 24 failures that led to the death of a 21-month-old.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

But lesser failures of coherence are among the commonest flaws in writing.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker