unavailing
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Repeated attempts to reach Bishop Zurek and his spokesman were unavailing, and the diocese did not respond to an emailed request for comment.
From Washington Times • Dec. 22, 2022
Facebook has said it is instituting a content moderation process via an oversight board, though its efforts to quell hate speech have been unavailing in the recent past.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2021
Equally unavailing is the majority’s reliance on the Proclamation’s waiver program.
From Slate • Jun. 26, 2018
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Comey described the tense scene as top White House aides arrived at Ashcroft’s room in an unavailing effort to secure his signature.
From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2017
The Martians of H. G. Wells and Orson Welles, preoccupied with the suppression of Bournemouth and Jersey City, never noticed until too late that their immunological defenses were unavailing against the microbes of Earth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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