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How to pronounce failure in American English
“failure” pronunciation by American speakers
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of failure by failure mode.
FAA
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many, many years because now it was all Armageddon, failure after failure after failure.
Smithsonian Air & Space
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It is a failure -- a failure of imagination.
The Obama White House
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