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unreliably

ADVERB
undependably
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But the singers’ vocal shortcomings were also unfairly exposed, and they were unreliably supported by Thomas Hengelbrock’s inconsistent baton leading his Balthasar Neumann Orchestra.

From New York Times Jul. 11, 2023

Still, because mutual aid networks are unreliably financed and structured, it’s easy for people to fall through the cracks of both government and grass-roots support systems.

From Washington Post Dec. 31, 2020

In 2009 America’s National Academy of Sciences argued that fingerprint, bite-mark and blood-spatter analysis were being used unreliably.

From Economist Jul. 16, 2015

“In sum, the administration of the death penalty can take place swiftly but unreliably or it can take place with long delays but without significant justifying purpose,’’ he concluded.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2015

Some relaxation of the laws regulating production and exportation, made possible an increase to 41,000 tons in 1802, and further relaxation made possible, in 1850, an output somewhat unreliably reported as 223,000 tons.

From Cuba, Old and New by Albert G. (Albert Gardner) Robinson



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