fail
Example Sentences
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Food systems need trained staff who can step in when systems fail, along with regular drills to ensure those skills are maintained.
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026
He is due to restart on Saturday, adding: "The challenge cannot fail - we have got to get to Land's End."
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
It’s a world in which it is easier to fail than to succeed, a world that a lot of people picking up a paperback for quarter at the drug store would have recognized.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
The emotional combustion of his climactic scenes with Willy fail to reach cathartic levels.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
Whatever option the Americans choose, I believe they will fail.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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