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"The customer service is dreadful. I email daily to no avail. I Facebook Message daily and I am still waiting for a resolution," Ms De Gennaro said.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025
"I've made inquiries, but to no avail. But I need to remember my father."
From Reuters • Oct. 30, 2023
“Hotel and casino workers used fire extinguishers to stop the fire but to no avail. People were panicking and rushing about everywhere but mainly for the nearest exit,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2022
Wrote Lani: “I begged and cajoled my mother to let me try it, just once, to no avail. We were Breck people. Sigh.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2022
S. pepe. bele v. i., by mischance, by mistake, in error, of no avail. belengaini v. tr., to do a thing by mischance, in error.
From Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands by Ivens, W. G. (Walter George)
Vocabulary lists containing avail
Grade 12, List 1
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
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