as in to fall short (of)
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Eliza felt her body becoming alive for the first time, coursing through with a vitality of pure sensation that had been missing for her entire teenage existence.—
Siouxzi Connor
June 20,
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That however means that monitoring any LLM answers miss the point.—
Lutz Finger,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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“Fail (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fail%20%28at%29. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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