Fail
Fail verb - To stop functioning.
Succeeded
Both words in one sentence
- The protagonists of Digimon Tamers would try to come up with tactics, but fail more often than they succeeded, the supporting adult characters later becoming strategists instead.
Source: The Strategist - All his plans to stop the Brotherhood with proper police procedures fail, and while he shoots all the bad guys by the end, their big plan succeeded.
Source: Failure Hero -
He succeeded at failing by failing to fail, which itself is still a failure to succeed.
Source: Springtime for Hitler
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Succeeded and Fail. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fail/succeeded
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