not applicable

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Still, about a third of firms do not plan to use AI, saying it’s not applicable to their business.

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

Thames Valley Police currently employs FLOs to help explain criminal investigation processes to bereaved families, but this is not applicable in cases of suicide.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

Importantly, none of the patients who died in this study were pronounced brain dead, and thus the results are not applicable to brain death.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2024

It is almost presumptuous and certainly not applicable to all, yet it was immeasurably valuable for me to hear as a first-time parent: If you can, have another child.

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2024

Unless the conception corresponds to a real agreement, it has a worse defect than that of not being clear; it is not applicable to the case at all.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart