Fail
Fail verb - To stop functioning.
Repeat
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Often Subverted in Betty Boop cartoons, where the animators would repeat a motion over and over using the skirt, only to have it fail ever so often.
Source: Magic Skirt -
Evil Laugh: Mau asks riddles for children to solve or says tongue twisters for them to repeat, at the threat of using his Evil Laugh should they fail.
Source: Series / Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum -
If you fail to destroy the final part, it will flee and you'll have to repeat the process all over again.
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Repeat and Fail. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fail/repeat
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