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  • noun Plural form of failure.

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Examples

  • The kind of personality that consistently blames everyone else but themselves for their failures is the worst kind of personality to have in our nation's executive office.

    Clinton: Democratic nomination process needs to change 2008

  • You won't hear me telling you that discussing our failures is anti-American - in fact, it's as American as apple pie.

    Arbitrary Media: Doctor Who perich 2006

  • In March of 2007 Silverstein appeared at a rally of construction workers and public officials outside of an insurance industry conference to highlight what he describes as the failures of insurers Allianz & Royal and Sun Alliance to pay $800 million in claims related to the attacks.

    Dear Larry Silverstein, 2007

  • What it's been like for the space agency, knowing the measure of success you've had on Mars, but also remembering what you call the failures of the past?

    CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2004 2004

  • "It seems as if the real victors in life were what we call the failures, the pioneers of truth."

    There was a King in Egypt Norma Lorimer 1906

  • In a statement, the rights watchdog cited what it called failures in Ivory Coast, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • In a statement, the rights watchdog cited what it called failures in Ivory Coast, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By DONNA BRYSON 2011

  • Until the compensation plans of corporations reflect long term performance and penalize short term failures we have a structural weakness in our business models.

    unknown title 2011

  • "This helps people reframe what they call failures as just steps along their life path of learning," Harris tells Monster.com.

    NYDN Rss Larry Buhl 2011

  • In a statement, the rights watchdog cited what it called failures in Ivory Coast, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

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