unsatisfactory
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The company then introduced an access fee -- a remedy the EU rejected in April as unsatisfactory.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
“The first quarter of 2026 was unsatisfactory for us, with weather-related supply-chain disruptions and pressure on freight rates leading to significantly lower results,” Chief Executive Rolf Habben Jansen said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
Customer-service operations still rely heavily on underpaid and poorly trained humans, leading to general dissatisfaction across all service metrics, including wait times and repeat calls, with consumers increasingly resorting to equally unsatisfactory self-service alternatives.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
During that time, he released two albums recorded while on bail or day release, but he generally glosses over them as unsatisfactory when discussing his career.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
They chose the men who would represent their clans in the governing councils, and they held the power to recall unsatisfactory representatives.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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