Fail
Fail verb - To stop functioning.
Show
Show verb - To present so as to invite notice or attention.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Deconstructed, as his behavior starts to cause increasingly worse things to happen, cause nothing but harm to everyone around him, and by the end of the show, his pathetic attempts to get attention fail and the show gets cancelled.
Source: Series / Delocated - Rarely, does the guest confess while on the show, only to either fail most or all of the questions or confess their actions on certain questions asked during the test.
Source: Series / The Steve Wilkos Show -
In I Love to Singa, auditioners for a talent show are sent down a trap door when they fail the audition.
Source: Trap-Door Fail
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Show and Fail. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fail/show
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