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Recent Examples of Synonyms for failing (at)
missing
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Officers then conducted a welfare check and while her phone was there, both her car and wallet were missing.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
20 Oct. 2025 -
On October 7th, at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s oversight hearing for Attorney General Pam Bondi, four Democratic senators—Sheldon Whitehouse, of Rhode Island; Mazie Hirono, of Hawaii; Alex Padilla, of California; and Peter Welch, of Vermont—also raised the matter of the missing fifty thousand.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Failing (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/failing%20%28at%29. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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