unreliable
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“In this story, especially and uniquely, every character had a reason to be an unreliable narrator,” he writes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
Polling in mayoral races is typically pretty unreliable.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
Much of Delhi's informal migrant workforce lives in densely-packed settlements with unreliable electricity, poor ventilation and no air-conditioning.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
He said unreliable internet was not something which had been stopping passengers from travelling via train - rather, the main issues were fares, delays and cancellations.
From BBC • May 26, 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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