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n. - An act that does not achieve its intended goal.

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  • Some of this litany of non-accomplishment is rooted in politics.
  • O hero, the non-accomplishment is evident of this (my vow which to me is a) source of great grief.
  • The same type of bugaboo lulled industry into a period of non-accomplishment for approximately eight years during the 1930's.
  • The morning, begun well, seemed to lead up only to sordid and anxious details -- a sense of non-accomplishment, induced also by small requisitions from different people,...
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