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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His buffoonish bravado and frequent failures alienate everyone who is not completely in his camp.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Van Koeverden said there has been progress at Hockey Canada to "address long-standing systemic failures" and said that national sport organisations must be held accountable.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
“The foregoing failures constitute deliberate indifference to the unconstitutional conditions that exist in the prisons,” investigators wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
No matter the strengths of AI, a chatbot cannot dream up stories with flawed characters and themes and arcs and failures and triumphs—with ambiguous finales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Perhaps Jaimito felt broken by these failures and her reminders of how she had tried to prevent them.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
