failure

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The willful failure to file a tax return is a misdemeanor.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Black said his faith helps him make sense of the violence he witnessed and endured — not simply as the product of individual malice, but as something sustained by collective moral failure.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

In a statement, Assistant District Attorney Kim D’Avignon blamed her office’s failure to secure an indictment on a lack of admissible evidence that would have proven the case beyond a reasonable doubt.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

Families have long been frustrated by the failure of Mexican authorities to find vanished loved ones and the criminals who took them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

With all the advantages of hindsight, Jefferson’s strategic assessment of 1796 appears more and more prescient: Whoever followed Washington was probably doomed to failure.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis