not dependable

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Robots depend on powerful motors to provide balance, but they’re not dependable except in carefully curated environments such as laboratories.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025

These early bikes were not dependable, says Tom Samuelsen, historian of the Pacific Northwest Museum of Motorcycling.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2022

Mr. McKenzie, who had worked with Mr. Indiana off and on for decades as a publisher of his work, said he worried at the time that Mr. Indiana’s other studio staff were not dependable.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2018

Nor was she especially good, in the sense of having a dependable inclination to virtue; she was quixotically loving, not steadily charitable: mutable, not dependable: given to infatuation, prey to impulse.

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2017

Then, too, the sense of touch if the operator's hands are chilled, is not dependable.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor