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[fayl-yer] / ˈfeɪl jər /




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Her son-in-law had earlier told AFP that Flores was suffering from a "prolapsed" heart, a condition that, in rare, severe cases, can cause heart failure.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The drug didn’t prove as effective in a wider population of breast-cancer patients whose tumors weren’t explicitly driven by the ESR1 mutation, a failure that led to a 53% stock selloff for Arvinas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

That specific failure is a bug, but being comfortable with its possibility is a feature.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

In the years that followed, his symptoms worsened and he suffered reoccurring stokes and died from heart failure in 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

“By the slightest margin of chance,” he’d later admit, “literally the failure of two wires to cross, a nuclear explosion was averted.”

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Reviews of last year’s firestorm revealed critical failures to pre-stage resources, especially in the Palisades where no engines were deployed in advance of the fire’s start, despite warnings of extreme weather.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Those failures included not flagging transactions that possibly involved Chinese money laundering networks or trade-based laundering "with a substantial nexus to the southwest border", according to the Treasury.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 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

Authorities are reviewing potential security failures that enabled Hammami to work the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

All we had done was blow up a fence and stink up Coalwood with our failures.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


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