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The phrase "fails to work" is correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use this phrase whenever you want to describe a situation where something does not function as expected or intended. For example: - "The computer fails to work properly when the internet connection is weak." - "The new software update fails to work on older devices." - "The car's engine fails to work after years of neglect." - "Despite repeated attempts, the machine still fails to work." - "The remote control fails to work if the batteries are low."
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Early in the play, a door fails to work.
Instead they concentrate on how democracy in America and Britain works and fails to work.
But protection does not come cheap and occasionally fails to work.
But the process could be slowed if the new SPD tandem leadership fails to work.
Even at the level of a Potemkin village, Pyongyang fails to work anymore.
The new "free-run down" mechanic fails to work as intuitively as might be expected too.
I own a Pure Evoke-3 DAB radio, costing nearly £200, that now fails to work.
In America a standard antibiotic for treating infected wounds fails to work over half of the time in hospitals.
We cannot wait another 10 years for the next Ofcom digital review to fix this if it fails to work.
Of all the ways New York State government fails to work, this is perhaps the most annoying.
But every so often one of these implanted devices fails to work when it is desperately needed.
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