failure
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But I have a family history of both dementia and heart failure, and have seen firsthand how painful shingles can be.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
Instead of treating her divorce as a failure, she gathered her close friends to mark the end of her former life and the beginning of her next chapter.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
Combined with computer modeling, these measurements helped establish how the different microscopic processes worked together to prevent brittle failure.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Villanueva, on the other hand, depicts the department’s Luna era as a sweeping failure that has left morale low, deputy jobs unfilled and criminals unpunished.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
He blamed Khrushchev for the failure of the summit.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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The trust accepted full responsibility for these failures, external and said it was profoundly sorry they resulted in Eleanor's death.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
Authorities have acknowledged security and intelligence failures that helped pave the way for the clashes, widespread looting and vandalism that erupted on October 17.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
But despite Cárdenas’ political failures, he remained a respected elder statesman and a central figure on the Mexican left until his death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
“Where we’re seeing any breaches or failures, it’s on commercial or private residential property. Everyone has to do their part.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
The parrot would call this the grandest of failures, I’m sure.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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