as in weaknesses
a defect in character
we could talk about your failings, but it would take all night
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Recent Examples of failings
Robotics startups typically prefer to show off their research prototypes in videos on social media, offering them the opportunity to show the machines at their best and edit out their failings.
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Arkansas Online, 7 Jan. 2026
Its medical professionals aren’t just competent but morally perfect, their personal failings serving mainly to make their essential nobility more tangible.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2026
Federal and municipal investigations linked infant mortality and other diseases to contaminated water, overcrowded housing, and inadequate sanitation, rather than to individual failings.
—Time, 19 Dec. 2025
Although officials do not believe that there will be any permanent damage to the collection, the leak is further cause for concern after the October 19 heist highlighted serious security failings at the Louvre.
—Jack Guy, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025
None of the Tim Walz failings have been enjoyable to chronicle.
—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2025
That fire was blamed on firms fitting the exterior with flammable cladding, as well as failings by the government and the construction industry.
—Joyce Zhou, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025
Each one highlights the failings of a different part of our system of constitutional government.
—Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 28 Nov. 2025
The seemingly dry battles over document production, though, are vitally important to understanding how this troubled segment of the health care business works, and what might be done to address its failings.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 6 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for failings
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Each flour has its strengths and weaknesses.—
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Ultimately, my goal is to give form to the unspoken and the unseen, and to remind viewers that vulnerability, emotion and inner complexity are not weaknesses but shared human experiences.—
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The qualities itemized above are not all faults.—
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While the extend of the damage was not immediately clear, the incident was serious enough to cause faults that were detected by the Finnish telecommunications provider Elisa, which operates the link.—
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That, plus the lack of talent and cap space thanks to the sins of the Deshaun Watson contract, for which general manager Andrew Berry was somehow spared, makes life difficult for whatever quarterback(s) start for the Browns in 2026.—
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Yet what elevates the show is its focus on gender relations and atoning for the sins of the past, adding layers of depth beyond its lurid plotting and somewhat ridiculousness.—
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In a division where technical shortcomings can be bridged by physical output, Aaronson is the pin-up boy.—
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When evaluating the defensive shortcomings from this past season, Schottenheimer has pointed at the lack of takeaways multiple times.—
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“Failings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/failings. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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