misfire
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They look even better when you factor in that only two of those games have been at home - with a previously impotent and misfiring team putting eight goals past Falkirk and Kilmarnock.
From BBC
Citi has had a string of operational misfires, and remains under consent orders to overhaul how it manages data, technology and compliance.
But it took another 140 years or so to solve the video challenge, with many misfires along the way.
These studies weren’t necessarily wrong, but I suspect they were snapshots in time that might have lured some into concluding the entire effort was destined to misfire.
Her performance in the first set of her second match was already a significant improvement, as she won nine of 11 points on her second serve, misfiring just twice for two double faults.
From Barron's
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