Fail
Fail verb - To stop functioning.
Solved
Solved adjective - Explained or answered.
Both words in one sentence
- It's the Necessary Fail that makes him Take A Level In Kindness towards those whose problems can't be solved with their sword-arm.
Source: Literature / Warrior Scarlet -
The most dire of these must be solved by the next chapter, but attempts to solve any of the others are doomed to fail until the book is near its conclusion, leading to a steadily amassing pile of increasingly bizarre problems.
Source: Failure Is the Only Option -
Shawn constantly remarks on what a bad detective Lassiter is, but there are numerous indications that he solved plenty of crimes off-screen, and tends to fail only on the types of cases that require Shawn.
Source: Series / Psych
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