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The phrase "almost fail to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that someone is very close to failing to do something, but ultimately does not.
Example: "She almost failed to submit her report on time, but managed to finish it just before the deadline."
Alternatives: "nearly fail to" or "come close to failing to".
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It's so good that I almost fail to notice Jesy's horrible gold leggings.
Trembling Bells have changed direction once again – but now sound so frantic that they almost fail to do themselves justice.
There's a Georgia pea soup with such resonant pea flavor that you wonder about the bastard pedigree of all prior peas in your life and almost fail to notice the morels and the delicate crawfish in the soup.
So fixated are they on their reading, they almost fail to notice one another.
SEATTLE--A new microscope is so exquisitely sensitive that scientific terms almost fail to describe it.
Diverse methods are reported to remove nitrate from water streams which almost fail to entirely treat nitrate, except biological denitrification which is capable of reducing inorganic nitrate compounds to harmless nitrogen gas.
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Curly Smart, a popular driver & trainer, almost failed to appear in the race.
John Franco, who now has a C stitched to his jersey, almost failed to perform them both.
Her first novel almost failed to find a publisher because, "it did not fit into any niche".
It is a homecoming that almost fails to happen when a plummeting swan causes a minor collision.
Ms. Fiekowsky and Mr. Whitten, who connected online and even exchanged photos of each other, almost failed to connect in person.
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