not dependable
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Robots depend on powerful motors to provide balance, but they’re not dependable except in carefully curated environments such as laboratories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025
These early bikes were not dependable, says Tom Samuelsen, historian of the Pacific Northwest Museum of Motorcycling.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
Mr. McKenzie, who had worked with Mr. Indiana off and on for decades as a publisher of his work, said he worried at the time that Mr. Indiana’s other studio staff were not dependable.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2018
Nor was she especially good, in the sense of having a dependable inclination to virtue; she was quixotically loving, not steadily charitable: mutable, not dependable: given to infatuation, prey to impulse.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2017
Then, too, the sense of touch if the operator's hands are chilled, is not dependable.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
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