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If the calculations are carried out over the next 10 or 20 years, more than 90% of actively managed funds will have failed to beat the market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

"We will have failed in our duty and the millions of people already feeling the effects of extreme weather," he added.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2024

He accepts that if the Dodgers don’t win the World Series this year, they will have failed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2024

"If we can't do this to simply not waste light... then we will have failed the fundamental test of progress and change into the next 50 years."

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2023

It will not only have failed them, but it will have failed us with them.

From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry