fail

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The two sides are now, finally, at the table, but if the talks fail, the dispute is headed for a shareholder vote that could reshape one of America’s most storied gun companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

"When groundwater is over-pumped or sediments fail to reach the coast, the land surface drops," said Werth, who co-led the groundwater analysis.

From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026

The law enforcement agencies tasked with serving and enforcing the orders often fail to do either effectively.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

Mediation tends to produce short-term crisis abatement at the cost of long-term stability because agreements reached under third-party pressure often fail to resolve the underlying conditions responsible for conflict in the first place.

From Barron's • Apr. 18, 2026

From my parents’ awful plan to give up Sir Fig Newton for adoption, to my epic fail with the lemonade stand.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas