noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
failing health (= when someone is becoming more ill )
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Despite failing health, he travelled to Australia to visit his son.
failing sight (= becoming worse )
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He ran the business until failing sight forced him to retire.
failing
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In his later years, he suffered from failing eyesight.
sb’s powers are failing/waning (= becoming less good )
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Mark felt that his creative powers were waning.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
human
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Avarice is one of our more disgusting human failings .
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Modern economic trade-offs and an old human failing lie behind this topical sequence.
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The human failing is the thing to attack, not the oil exploration.
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Love and embrace the Church despite its human failings .
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The kings they portray were a mixture of human heroism, divinely inspired wisdom and very human failings .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He loved her in spite of her failings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Every failing that we pointed out has since proved to exist: those failings have emerged every year since its implementation.
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For me this was a hard-won lesson, based on my own failings in this direction.
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I am not going to intrude like the voice of doom, commenting on her choices, her motives, her failings.
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One obvious failing in Britain is the gap between the skills the workforce offers and those employers want.
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Questions about Phyllis's own failings are raised, but not examined in depth.
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Several authors, who see the failings of our present system, do not wish to see an extension of participatory democracy.