unreliable
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Polling in mayoral races is typically pretty unreliable.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
"Sometimes people pick trains so they have the option of working while they're travelling," she says, adding that operators shouldn't advertise their wi-fi as a benefit of rail travel if it is unreliable.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
But even they are unreliable: they often get destroyed or jammed, so supply deliveries have been intermittent.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
The numbers that researchers have been using to predict which jobs could be lost to artificial intelligence may be unreliable.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
All the usual sources of information including e-mail and cell phones were much too slow and unreliable to be of any use and there was no television to speak of.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
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