fail
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What these sales fail to capture is what people spend on services such as travel, recreation and entertainment.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Adding to the risks associated with the heatwave, a few tropical nights - where temperatures fail to drop below 20C - are also on the cards as increasingly humid air spreads into western areas.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The findings suggest that long dinosaur trackways can preserve behavioral details that shorter stretches of footprints may fail to reveal.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Rovner: The best creative always comes from knowing it’s OK to fail, it’s OK to try something.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The paper was frayed and nearly falling apart because every night, without fail, Pili would read to her little brother.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
“This fails to provide any safeguards for Los Angeles taxpayers and most assuredly risks the city’s fiscal stability,” Councilmember Monica Rodriguez said after voting against the agreement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The intro gets blasted at sporting events to raise energy or when something good happens, and it never fails to rally a crowd.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
By raising average temperatures, it makes extreme heat more likely and, when rain fails, increases evaporation and dries soils faster.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
In other words, the mall site that launched the entire movement could see the tech park go ahead if the county executive fails to follow her own rhetoric, even if the two-year moratorium otherwise lasts.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
However, the tortoise theory fails to be a good scientific theory because it predicts that people should be able to fall off the edge of the world.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
Last month, Mehta learned he hadn’t been selected for the job—his sixth failed attempt to secure a government job in nearly a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
But most of Medicare’s payment experiments have failed, so private insurers and employers should test outcome-based models of their own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The claimants' lawsuit alleges Wondermind failed to meet "even its most basic obligations, such as timely paying its employees and vendors".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The city says Lineage failed to meet the deadline Friday, while the company says it should have more time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
It stretched its burning wings, tried to fly, and failed.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Leavitt, by never failing to placate, flatter and worship her boss, has displayed a singular and decisive pathway, although not a very original one, to political success.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Despite the top and middle orders again failing to convince, the hosts battled to 152-5 before fast bowler Taskin Ahmed bowled Beau Webster and Australia lost their last five wickets for just 46 runs.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Yet we also want treatment options that are sustainably affordable and accessible to everyone — and that is where our current system is failing us.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
In the late 1950s, the party accused him of failing to uphold Maoist orthodoxy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
I keep trying to find the sky’s edge and failing to do so.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
