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"failed to reduce" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation where an action or effort was taken to decrease or lessen something, but was ultimately unsuccessful. Example: Despite multiple attempts, the government failed to reduce crime rates in the city. In this sentence, "failed to reduce" expresses that the government tried to decrease crime rates but were not able to achieve their goal.
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Those efforts proved costly and failed to reduce crime.
The stimulus failed to reduce unemployment to an acceptable level.
Global Services has also failed to reduce costs as fast as the management had hoped.
Rover also failed to reduce its costs and the size of its labor force.
But his knees constantly troubled him, and arthroscopic surgery failed to reduce the pain.
The falling dollar has so far failed to reduce America's trade gap.
Whatever interventions were offered apparently failed to reduce the risk for future child abuse.
It has failed to reduce the deficit as planned and it has failed even more comprehensively to rebalance the economy.
Darpladib failed to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes in the first of two Phase 3 clinical studies.
Streptomycin and penicillin failed to reduce soil respiration.
Concomitant push-pull manoeuver with right and left instruments failed to reduce the herniated bowel.
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