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'fail to surprise' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when something is expected, and it happens as expected. For example, "His success in the competition failed to surprise anyone, as he has consistently been a top performer."
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SCENES of protesting truck drivers and fishermen fail to surprise any more.
She will perform pieces by Mr. Love, Mr. Patterson and Julie Atlas Muz, three choreographers who seldom do fail to surprise, in addition to her own work.
The season starts with Verdi's "Aida," directed by the idiosyncratic collective from Barcelona, La Fura dels Baus, whose production will not fail to surprise (or even shock) the 15,000 spectators.
Fans know that Mercury Rev never fail to surprise with a creativity that has seen them reinvent their sound several times over the course of their 20-plus-year career.
This book still did not fail to surprise me with its great writing with all of the praise it has got and therefore I now see John Green is an bewildering author.
But management is said to want to move away from mid-ranking investigations that fail to surprise or have a lasting impact, with a belief that some programmes over the last few years have not been strong enough for a prestigious BBC brand.
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Rob Drummond never fails to surprise.
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It never fails to surprise and delight me.
Politics, he said, "never fails to surprise me".
With new discoveries every day, Cornell has never failed to surprise me!
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