failed experiment

collocation in English

meaningsoffailedandexperiment

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failed
adjective[before noun]
uk
/feɪld/us
/feɪld/
having ...
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experiment
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪkˈsper.ɪ.mənt/us
/ɪkˈsper.ə.mənt/
a test done in order to learn something or to discover if something works or ...
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(Definition offailedandexperimentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffailed experiment

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The author goes on to describe adolescence as a "failedexperiment" that has had dire social consequences.
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The good news is that thisfailedexperimentpoints out the real problem and leads us to a solution.
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It need not be afailedexperiment.
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He did mention thefailedexperimentof the poll tax.
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It was afailedexperimenton a massive scale.
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Whatever the reason for its disappearance, the support of a pauper represents afailedexperimentfrom a distinctive phase of the development of the inquisition.
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This proved afailedexperiment.
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The net result has been no increase in standards; it has been afailedexperiment.
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Indeed, we are all familiar with the history of thatfailedexperiment.
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Project 100,000 was afailedexperiment.
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It was both afailedexperiment, causing increasing frustration and boredom in musical practice, and at the same time the ultimate romantic voice and the subject of many fantasies.
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The sense of irrelevance is the real judgment on the fatally flawed andfailedexperimentof direct elections.
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Unfortunately, thatfailedexperimenthas done extreme damage, particularly to the manufacturing industry and to our competitive position.
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Critics thought the painting afailedexperimentrather than art.
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This was anotherfailedexperimentin high pressure steam locomotives.
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The project was mostly unaccepted by the community and widely considered afailedexperiment.
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Members are encouraged to share raw data andfailedexperimentresults.
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The advice that we received was that it was afailedexperimentand that the people, and the international community, were not good at nation building.
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However, many other critics said it was afailedexperiment, and some even said that it gave them the creeps.
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A secondfailedexperimenton fluid dynamics was intended to measure the bulk oscillations of a drop of mercury immersed in a clear liquid.
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Drum corps looking to solve membership problems and ease financial burden by merging with another drum corps would do well to consider thisfailedexperiment.
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A gradual reversal in trade policy culminated in the military announcing import substitution as afailedexperiment, lifting protectionist barriers and opening the economy to the world market.
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The line at the time was reported as having 143 daily riders, and had required a taxpayer subsidy of $8.71 per boarding, and was seen as afailedexperiment.
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