nonachievement

noun

ˌnän-ə-ˈchēv-mənt How to pronounce nonachievement (audio)
Definition of nonachievementnext
as in defeat
a falling short of one's goals a youthful drug addict who's headed for a lifetime of nonachievement

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Recent Examples of nonachievement Where some purists see an arbitrary nonachievement, others see a fun and worthy goal. — Jon Gluck, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
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  1. defeat
  2. failure
  3. collapse
Noun
  • On the women’s side, JC Smith (7-18) opens against Livingstone — a team that swept the Golden Bulls with a pair of 13-point defeats in the regular season.
    — Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 19 Mar. 2025
  • As a result, Atlanta were able to enact revenge on The Bay who handed them their only defeat of the TGL season.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of defeat
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  • Related article Research team reports longest successful transplant of a pig kidney into a human A successful pig liver transplant would be a major advance for people with acute liver failure, even as a temporary bridge while awaiting a human donor organ.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
  • For many Democrats in Congress, the failure to hold Trump’s national security team accountable signals a broader disregard for truth and accountability.
    — Nik Popli, Time, 26 Mar. 2025
Definition of failure
Noun
  • The building collapse near the city's Chatuchak Market killed at least three people, Thai National Institute for Emergency Medicine said at 4:20 p.m. local time (5:30 a.m. ET).
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Scandals such as Bernard Madoff’s huge Ponzi scheme discovered earlier this century and the collapse of the energy firm Enron a few years earlier are proof enough of that.
    — Roger Trapp, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Definition of collapse

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