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  1. failed

    Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. The criteria for failure depends on context, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system. One person might consider a failure what another person considers a success, particularly in cases of direct competition or a zero-sum game. Similarly, the degree of success or failure in a situation may be differently viewed by distinct observers or participants, such that a situation that one considers to be a failure, another might consider to be a success, a qualified success or a neutral situation. It may also be difficult or impossible to ascertain whether a situation meets criteria for failure or success due to ambiguous or ill-defined definition of those criteria. Finding useful and effective criteria, or heuristics, to judge the success or failure of a situation may itself be a significant task.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Failed

    of Fail

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'failed' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1120

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'failed' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2561

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of failed in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of failed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of failed in a Sentence

  1. Lauren Boebert:

    Make no mistake: Members of the House Freedom Caucus are not standing here today because Nancy Pelosi called for an emergency session of Congress, we're standing here because Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and every person they've put in a position of leadership, failed our brave men and women. They failed our brave men and women of the United States military, and they failed the American people.

  2. Greta Thunberg:

    We have to acknowledge that the older generations have failed. All political movements in their present form have failed, but homo sapiens have not yet failed. Yes, we are failing, but there is still time to turn everything around. We can still fix this.

  3. Bezalel Smotrich:

    Those who failed in protecting prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, were not the right-wingers and the religious Zionists and the settlers who justifiably decried his government’s policies — it was the security services, which not only failed to protect him, but also used irresponsible manipulations, which haven’t been fully exposed to this day, to encourage the murderer to carry out his plan.

  4. George Eliot:

    Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  5. Scott Adams:

    Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

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