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unavailing

[uhn-uh-vey-ling] / ˌʌn əˈveɪ lɪŋ /


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As part of their unavailing effort, the judges quoted a 1940 speech then-U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025

That memo also includes an analysis of why, in the authors’ views, those defenses are generally unavailing with respect to criminal charges.

From Slate • Jul. 20, 2023

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

But despite said indignities, Italian Americans’ quest for affirmative action has been mostly unavailing.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2022

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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