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Recent Examples of nonachievement Where some purists see an arbitrary nonachievement, others see a fun and worthy goal. Jon Gluck, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
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Noun
  • In the Dodgers’ eventual 7-6 defeat, what ensued became a game-deciding sequence of a very different kind for Ohtani.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The striker, who has struggled to make an impact recently and was substituted at half-time in that defeat by City, produced an incredible finish to chip the Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya and make it 2-2 with seven minutes to go.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The fraud on his watch represents one of the greatest failures of a public official in the state’s history.
    Jim Schultz, National Review, 1 May 2025
  • The study describes how private businesses lack the financial incentive to fund basic and applied scientific research and development and how government agencies like the NIH and NSF ameliorate the market failure.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • With the Soviet Union’s collapse, the United States enjoyed a margin of superiority that would have been unimaginable to earlier great powers.
    A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The pope died in his apartment from a stroke, coma and irreversible cardiovascular collapse (heart failure), according to the Holy See.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2025

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“Nonachievement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonachievement. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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