failing grade/mark
noun
: a grade/mark that shows that someone did not pass a test or course of study
He received a failing grade/mark in chemistry.
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The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the nation’s aging electrical infrastructure a D+, a failing grade, in the organization’s latest annual Infrastructure Report Card.
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Kelly Fleming, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
The fifth failing grade accounted for 2023, but it wasn’t released until this year due to litigation that prevented TEA from releasing the grades for two years.
—Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2025
Respondents weren’t kind to Tepper in last year’s survey, with 84.1 percent of them handing the team owner a failing grade.
—Joseph Person, New York Times, 9 July 2025
The State of the Air report also found that a person of color is more than twice as likely to live in a community with a failing grade for all three measures of pollution covered in the report.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
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Kelly Fleming, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
The fifth failing grade accounted for 2023, but it wasn’t released until this year due to litigation that prevented TEA from releasing the grades for two years.
—Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2025
Respondents weren’t kind to Tepper in last year’s survey, with 84.1 percent of them handing the team owner a failing grade.
—Joseph Person, New York Times, 9 July 2025
The State of the Air report also found that a person of color is more than twice as likely to live in a community with a failing grade for all three measures of pollution covered in the report.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
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“Failing grade/mark.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/failing%20grade%2Fmark. Accessed 15 Aug. 2025.
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