failures
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The Sheriff’s Department has said that it cited Barraza for failing to deploy de-escalation tactics before using force and that it disciplined a sergeant for failures during the assessment after the incident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Cancer also involves abnormal cell behavior, including failures in the mechanisms that ordinarily regulate cell growth and division.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
But the government argues SWR's early period in public hands was affected by high summer temperatures, signal failures and trespass incidents.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
No enforcement is planned as a result of the trial, which was intended to establish the potential scale of mobile phone use and failures to use child restraints.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
The advantage of only having to feed themselves, and not having to support five extravagant human beings as well, was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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