unsuccessful
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Yet he is so bad at ABS challenges that manager Dave Roberts forbade Pages from challenging pitches after his unsuccessful challenge in the NL Division Series opener Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Her timeline accelerated by more than a decade after a 2025 layoff and an unsuccessful job hunt.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
In the Baltics, German Freikorps fought Bolshevik revolutionaries and local nationalists in an unsuccessful attempt to establish an independent German-dominated state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
After the eight-point reinstatement but with the 19-point penalty still in place, the Foxes are 17 points behind Essex and will be relegated if their appeal is unsuccessful.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
By mid-May he had reached the head of the East Rongbuk Glacier at 21,000 feet, where he plundered a supply of food and equipment cached by Eric Shipton’s unsuccessful 1933 expedition.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
