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unavailing

[uhn-uh-vey-ling] / ˌʌn əˈveɪ lɪŋ /


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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

Facebook has said it is instituting a content moderation process via an oversight board, though its efforts to quell hate speech have been unavailing in the recent past.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2021

Equally unavailing is the majority’s reliance on the Proclamation’s waiver program.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2018

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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