"announce failure" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you might use the phrase "The principal was required to announce failure rates" in a sentence.
The swing from announced failure to a renewal of talks came in just over two hours.
So far this year, the F.D.I.C. has announced failures at 57 banks, including seven in Illinois on Friday night.
In an interview with The New York Times in 1973, she said: "A divorce is a record of failure, and you don't usually announce a failure.
He said, "I feel deep sorrow and regret to announce the failure of the efforts we have exerted to end the crisis in Iraq peacefully.
As if our suffering patients didn't have it bad enough, now the pharmaceuticals go and announce the failure of yet more drug trials dashing hopes for the million UK sufferers of Alzheimer's.
Announcing failure before the mission even launched is an uncomfortable brand of rhetoric, one that illuminates Musk's preference of logic and probability over faith in the thousands of Space X employees working around the clock for him.
The F.D.I.C. also announced the failure of Southern Community Bank of Fayetteville, Ga., which had $377 million in assets and $307 million in deposits.
[C4.] Big Trial for Autism Drug Fails Repligen, a small biotechnology company, announced the failure of a large clinical trial for secretin, an experimental drug for autism.
WASHINGTON Mere seconds after the leaders of a joint Congressional committee announced their failure to reach a deficit deal, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee announced he would try to undo the consequences.
Deprived of even that, stocks fell November 21st, the day the committee announced its failure, but soon turned their attention back to Europe.Superficially the lack of alarm was understandable.
