inedible
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The trader said he lost $60,000 last month after a container he imported from Kenya was impounded at the Congolese border for several weeks, rendering milk, cheese and sausages inedible.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
The food was often inedible, and the water was discolored.
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026
Many of the patients told us the food could sometimes be "inedible".
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2025
The results were rarely inedible, but often disconcerting: over-salted, over-spiced, somehow both cloying and sharp, like they couldn’t decide what they wanted to be.
From Salon • Jul. 4, 2025
Lively perhaps, but exactly what Hoagland couldn’t use, material any spy would read and crabbily say was inedible paper.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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