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Example sentences for: fail

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Perhaps they would fail.
Even beyond the klunky language, the authors fail to transcend their narrow context and explore what management success in the movie business might have entailed.
Additionally, the same outlier-removal algorithm rendered the small 0.1 pM ADI for the PheX_3 nonexistent, suggesting that simple heuristics can fail in a low signal-to-noise environment.
USA Today leads with a preliminary, non-public congressional study concluding that nine out of 10 background checks conducted by the Pentagon on employees with access to classified information fail to meet federal standards.
We who are in control of the media and therefore aware of the context in which unclear English is used, know what's going on (and therefore the meanings of the utterances used to describe it), while the vulgar (to use Berkeley's delightful expression for those with a shaky grasp of vocabulary and syntax who are therefore ill equipped to understand some particular bit of newspeak) are led to believe, when they fail to fathom what's going on, that the failure in comprehension is entirely their fault.