unsuccessful

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Former Northwest Airlines co-chairman Al Checchi spent more than $40 million of his money on an unsuccessful gubernatorial primary campaign in 1998, which broke records at the time.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

That bear is yet to be caught after attempts to tranquilise it were unsuccessful.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Raj Bhakta was a former contestant on “The Apprentice,” an unsuccessful congressional candidate and an embattled whiskey entrepreneur.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

The development commission has recommended reviving the Hood County data center moratorium proposal, but those efforts have so far been unsuccessful in being added to the commissioners’ agenda.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

And so Magister Brangwain Spurge, unsuccessful assassin, leaned forward with his elbows on his scrawny knees and began to make his full confession.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin