Debate Team, while thinking they are cool, actually fail at being a superior academic club compared to others.

Her eyes widened until it seemed they might actually fail onto the table.

In fact he actually failed to recognize some of them at first.

They could not afford to have a colony actually fail.

"Some schools actually failed because they were unable to get their own individual space."

If this is the part which actually failed, then it may corroborate independent evidence of the failure.

Do you actually fail the year if you don't hand in a piece of work?

Would United actually fail it were required to meet its pension obligations?

They actually failed, but earned extra credit for taking the exam during a monster attack.

So it hasn't actually failed, it's just not up to scratch.