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Discover LudwigThe phrase "fail at something" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that someone was not successful in achieving a goal or objective. Example: Although he tried his best, in the end he had to accept that he had failed at his goal of running a marathon in under four hours.
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There is no excuse for Samsung to fail at something so basic.
"The idea that literature could fail at something was such a disappointment".
They say it can lessen motivation and set children up to be demoralized when they invariably fail at something.
I had failed as a short-story writer, so I decided I wanted to fail at something bigger".
He sensed that he was about to fail at something he'd worked hard at, and for the life of him he didn't know why.
No one wants to fail, but we all do sometimes, and it is undeniably better to fail at something difficult and risky than at something easy and safe.
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"No one likes to be told they've failed at something.
Anytime an athlete fails at something we can imagine ourselves doing, we label them chokers.
I'd failed at something that supposedly was the best thing in my life.
Tell us about a time in your life when you failed at something, and what happened as a result.
"Because you failed at something — which, we haven't failed," she said, looking at the camera briefly — "but because you failed, does not make you a failure.
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