Failure and Supernova

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Failure noun - The nonperformance of an assigned or expected action.

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Supernova is an antonym for failure.

Nearby Words: fail, failing, failed

Supernova noun - A person or thing that is successful.

Usage example: tragically, a shoulder injury cut short the pitching career of one of baseball's brightest supernovas

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Failure is an antonym for supernova.

In Star Trek, Spock-prime's greatest failure was not arriving in time to save the planet Romulus from a supernova blast.

Source: My Greatest Failure
Batman Gambit: In Life, the Universe and Everything Hactar takes advantage of his apparent failure to trick the people of Krikkit into destroying the universe to instead plant the real supernova bomb on Arthur and manipulate him into nearly doing so.

Source: Franchise / The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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