Fail
Fail verb - To stop functioning.
Recognise
Recognise verb - Perceive to be the same.
Both words in one sentence
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Here he sees her descending the staircase before she meets Krum - likely because nobody could fail to recognise Emma Watson.
- Recognition Failure: The guards completely fail to recognise Twilight and Rarity when they show up in Canterlot to visit the princesses in a flashback within Chapter 7.
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Especially hilarious since he is very talented - at personal combat - but has exactly no ability to recognise what his talents are, leading to both military and civilian careers crafted from incompetence and menacing with spikes of fail.
Source: The Neidermeyer
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