without success
idiom
: without achieving what one tried to do : unsuccessfully
He tried to repair the engine but without success.
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Some have felt conflicted, but after decades without success and 14 years of soulless drudgery under Mike Ashley’s parsimonious ownership, many were willing to accept anything for the promise or even just the hope of better times.
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Oliver Kay, The Athletic, 19 Mar. 2025
Luna previously tried to get GOP leadership to include a proxy voting provision in a House rules package, without success.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 11 Mar. 2025
Immigrant advocates have pushed to shore up those protections with a federal bill that would expand visa eligibility for workers cooperating with regulators to expose labor violations, so far without success.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2025
Like Lyles, the Marshall family matriarch seized the opportunities presented by the Confederacy’s downfall to begin searching for her children, though initially without success.
—Robert Colby, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
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Oliver Kay, The Athletic, 19 Mar. 2025
Luna previously tried to get GOP leadership to include a proxy voting provision in a House rules package, without success.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 11 Mar. 2025
Immigrant advocates have pushed to shore up those protections with a federal bill that would expand visa eligibility for workers cooperating with regulators to expose labor violations, so far without success.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2025
Like Lyles, the Marshall family matriarch seized the opportunities presented by the Confederacy’s downfall to begin searching for her children, though initially without success.
—Robert Colby, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
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“Without success.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/without%20success. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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