failed

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Sierra broke back immediately but once again failed to serve out the win as a resurgent Raducanu forced a tie-break.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

After tests in a provincial laboratory failed to pinpoint Ebola as the source, the disease and accompanying psychosis were both allowed to spread in Mongbwalu.

From Barron's • May 24, 2026

In 2025, Europe's top rights court ruled that Italy had failed to protect residents and gave the government two years to fix the situation.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

Surveying his own time, Fiedler concludes that this gothic literary mode still captures most fully what he describes as “an era of universal war, alienation from nature, failed revolutions, genocide, and ideological self-deception.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

I’d heard all that before, the last time I’d failed this simulation.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin