unreliably

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Reviewing the final concert, of the First and Ninth, I heard a conductor struggling to navigate the contrasting scales of these two works, which were both played with outsize, unreliably balanced sound.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022

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 Robinson, Albert G. (Albert Gardner)