unreliably
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Still, because mutual aid networks are unreliably financed and structured, it’s easy for people to fall through the cracks of both government and grass-roots support systems.
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2020
In 2009 America’s National Academy of Sciences argued that fingerprint, bite-mark and blood-spatter analysis were being used unreliably.
From Economist • Jul. 16, 2015
“In sum, the administration of the death penalty can take place swiftly but unreliably or it can take place with long delays but without significant justifying purpose,’’ he concluded.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2015
When the White Stripes broke through at the turn of the millennium, details of his childhood emerged unsteadily and unreliably.
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2014
Some relaxation of the laws regulating production and exportation, made possible an increase to 41,000 tons in 1802, and further relaxation made possible, in 1850, an output somewhat unreliably reported as 223,000 tons.
From Cuba, Old and New by Robinson, Albert G. (Albert Gardner)