failure
noun
an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success.
failures
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pluralof failure.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The hearings scrutinised authorities that had interactions with Calocane in the years before the attacks, laying bare failures and missed opportunities by agencies, including the NHS and police.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Reviews of the Los Angeles Fire Department response to the January 2025 firestorm revealed critical failures to pre-stage resources.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
To avoid ethical failures, the author advises executives to write down their doubts, delay high-pressure decisions and trust their discomfort.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
His punishment is the Word, and his deficiencies are failures of words—as when he grows impatient with translation and strikes out precariously on his own, telling parables in his wildly half-baked Kikongo.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
