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

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  • If you look at what he didn't do, in short, it's hard to imagine a more prolific record of non-achievement.
  • It makes them see their past as one wasteland of non-achievement and it makes them want to distance themselves from that wasteland.
  • Perhaps there can be such a thing as 'victory' in a battle, whereas in war there can be only the achievement or non-achievement of your objectives.
  • His life, other than being the lucky recipient of reverse discrimination that got him into Harvard and got him the editorship of the Harvard Review for which, oddly enough, he...
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