Failing
Failing adjective - Below acceptable in performance.
Not enough and failing are semantically related In some cases you can use "Not enough" instead an adjective "Failing".
Not enough
Failing and not enough are semantically related in defective topic. Sometimes you can use "Failing" instead an adjective phrase "Not enough".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Contrast Get It Over With, as well as Once Is Not Enough, where it would be sensible to do this but the character reveals his Genre Blindness and terminal idiocy by failing to.
Source: Kick Them While They Are Down -
In The World Is Not Enough, the Cigar Girl Assassin blows herself up rather than face arrest from MI6, or worse yet, punishment (for failing to kill Bond) from Renard.
Source: Cyanide Pill -
Failing the command kill before Reckoning ends allows Fate to reassert itself and the enemies regain a bit of health (Fate has a lot of power in the KoA setting, but not enough to undo grievous bodily harm from a Fateless attacker).
Source: You Are Already Dead
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