Better
Better verb - To be greater, better, or stronger than.
Fail
Fail verb - To stop functioning.
Common collocations
| everyone | better everyone | fail everyone |
Both words in one sentence
- It's shown again in "Magic Duel", where Twilight is trained by Zecora to better her magic, and her stray thoughts of Trixie cause her magic to fail.
Source: Magic Is Mental -
Although his first album on his own (also titled Aftermath) would fail to capture the magic of The Chronic to say the least, he gets better.
Source: Film / Straight Outta Compton - This is because Tex is programmed, for lack of a better term, to always fail at any big endeavors she plans.
Source: Noodle Incident / Web Animation
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Fail and Better. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/better/fail
Better & Fail. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/better/fail>.
Fail or Better. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/better/fail.
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