unreliable
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The cumulative effect of all this was seen at the start of the year, when it became obvious the car and the engine were both uncompetitive and unreliable.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
According to the complaint, Prabhakar had taught the story for nearly a decade without incident and used it in a unit on unsympathetic and unreliable narrators alongside works by Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
But her biggest fear is for her sick young child, who depends on an oxygen machine powered by unreliable electricity supply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
You could patch up the car, which could make it an unreliable jalopy that breaks down — leading to you having to pour more money into fixing it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Billy’s perceptions were so unreliable that he saw the words as hanging in air, painted on a transparent curtain, perhaps.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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STAAR English I: Elements of Literature
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