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"fails to engage" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that someone or something has not been successful in gaining interest or involving someone in a particular activity. For example, "The speaker's dull delivery fails to engage the audience."
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Eritrea may become a failed state if the world community fails to engage with the Horn of Africa nation, a think-tank has warned.
Still, it's not uncompelling; raw emotion rarely fails to engage.
It's largely familiar stuff, though not uncompelling; raw emotion rarely fails to engage.
As an espionage thriller, it fails to engage on anything more than a superficial level.
No wonder it fails to engage with the vagaries of ageing.
We know much of what's happening on social media fails to engage with hard politics.
I wouldn't say that an organization that fails to engage in social business is nonsocial.
She took issue with a sequence in which Theroux fails to engage Brian, who is severely autistic.
Worse, "C" fails to engage the reader on the most basic level as a narrative or text.
Caught up in Hitler's particular psychology, Mr Schmitt fails to engage satisfactorily with the question of the nature of evil.
He is mostly invisible, talks once or twice a year and fails to engage the people of India.
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