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failure

[feyl-yer] / ˈfeɪl jər /




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While the risk of explosion is believed to have been low, CalMac described it as a "critical failure" in the gas fuel system and said lessons had been learned.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

Britain saw its worst air systems failure in years in 2023, with more than 700,000 passengers affected after hundreds of flights were delayed or cancelled.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

From the comedians’ own unravelings, failure to evolve to the audiences’ bad-faith misreadings, or sheer disinterest, to say there’s a disconnect between the two groups is to put it lightly.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

The impact of the Novartis failure extended to biotechs working on adjacent therapies.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

The failure of, say, Citigroup might be economically tolerable.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

"We say the timeline contains a litany of unnoticed red flags, missed opportunities and individual and systemic failures," he said.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

As memory scholar Paul Connerton has argued, some forms of forgetting are not failures but necessary parts of social life.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

It was after the sentencing that a number of failures in Calocane's care and previous interactions with police emerged, sparking calls for the public inquiry.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

Insurers face significant risks because data centers are exposed to threats like extreme weather, power cuts, IT failures and terrorism.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 2026

But of all his failures, none haunted Barristan Selmy so much as that.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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