failure

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Manager Gennaro Gattuso and Italy have agreed to "mutually terminate" his contract after their failure to qualify for a third successive World Cup.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Gold’s failure as a haven may also have, in part, reflected selling by central banks to raise cash.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Birotte said he agreed with the defense attorneys that the failure to turn over discovery constituted a Brady violation, in which suppression of evidence favorable to the defense violates due process.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

As a matter of story construction, too, the film is a failure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

“Yet neither of you told me the truth about her! You like that I’m known as a failure, don’t you?”

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas