unreliable
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The monsoon has started, the seas are rough, and the boats - usually old fishing trawlers converted to carry as many people as possible - are barely sea-worthy with unreliable engines.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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
This gives it a logistical advantage over injectable GLP-1 formulations – a potentially important consideration for expanding access in low- and middle-income countries, where cold chain infrastructure is unreliable.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
Aviv’s journalistic method leans on the idea of unreliable narration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
And without the fact, the new notion that knowledge is grounded in evidence, not authority, might have received only the sort of inconsistent and unreliable endorsement that we have seen it receiving from della Porta.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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STAAR English I: Elements of Literature
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