adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a failed/broken marriage
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After two failed marriages, she was not willing to risk marrying again.
an attempted/abortive/failed coup (= one that did not succeed )
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There was an attempted coup against Togo’s military dictator.
failed to materialize
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The money we had been promised failed to materialize .
signally failed
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The government has signally failed to deal with the problem.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
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Past failed attempts at market and product development.
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And let's not forget a few failed attempts at making it in the movies along the way.
coup
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It was the worst violence Moscow had seen since the failed coup of August 1991.
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President Gamul Abdel Nasser had dissolved the organization after a failed coup attempt in Alexandria in which he claimed it was involved.
marriage
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And the secret past of stony -faced consultant Julian Chapman emerges in the shape of a failed marriage and a drink problem.
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A failed marriage is one of those unconsidered trifles he might expect to sniff out.
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There followed three more failed marriages , going to college, teaching and becoming a writer.
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Two failed marriages didn't put me off.
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He knew she had a failed marriage with a strange son, Steve.
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She then proceeded to recite a bitter list of all the failed marriages which we had in our midst or knew of.
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But the greatest coup of all was engineering publication of her side of the story of her failed marriage .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Currently the need for a revision is the most commonly used definition of a failed operation.
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I set out the failed supper.
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Rebleeders who did not receive a second injection with the same solution were defined as failed cases.
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The line number containing the failed cross-reference is renumbered and the line number in the error report is the new line number.
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When a disk fails, objects are re-replicated on remaining disks and the system becomes fault-tolerant again with replacing the failed disk.