unreliable
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RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey said passengers and rail workers should not have to face another week of "travel chaos" because of unreliable back-up systems.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
They alleged prosecutors relied on "unreliable people with criminal records, financial motivations and inconsistent statements".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
“AI can help solve important problems involving narrow tasks even when local computing power is limited, electricity is unreliable, and internet service is dodgy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The plaintiffs’ claims “lack scientific merit and were sustained only by unreliable expert opinions that could not survive rigorous judicial review,” Erik Haas, Johnson & Johnson’s global vice president of litigation, said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Human beings, Montaigne argued, are imperfect, and so human knowledge is necessarily unreliable.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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