as in futile
producing no results
an unsuccessful attempt to fix the faucet ourselves
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Recent Examples of unsuccessful
As the cost of child care increases, Ms. Harris suggests no family should pay more than 7% of their income for it – an idea that was included with President Joe Biden’s unsuccessful Build Back Better plan in 2021.
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Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2024
What will Newsom decide? Sept. 5, 2024 Villaraigosa previously ran an unsuccessful bid for governor in 2018 and failed to make it past the primary.
—Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
Morgan is a former state Republican chair, House minority leader – and unsuccessful 2018 primary candidate for governor – who has served in the legislature off and on for 12 years.
—USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
The assignment of boarding zones, meant to quell the crowd, has heretofore been unsuccessful due to a lack of enforcement on the part of the airlines.
—Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2024
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Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2024
What will Newsom decide? Sept. 5, 2024 Villaraigosa previously ran an unsuccessful bid for governor in 2018 and failed to make it past the primary.
—Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
Morgan is a former state Republican chair, House minority leader – and unsuccessful 2018 primary candidate for governor – who has served in the legislature off and on for 12 years.
—USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
The assignment of boarding zones, meant to quell the crowd, has heretofore been unsuccessful due to a lack of enforcement on the part of the airlines.
—Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2024
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After a full year of fighting, efforts to restore peace have proven futile so far, and mitigating the conflict's worst impacts continues to be a daily struggle.Shannon K. Kingston, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2024
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Defending himself, Musk said it was meant merely to highlight how futile such an endeavor would be.Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2024
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These latest such initiatives focus on linking cookies to devices and apps, rendering thefts useless.Zak Doffman, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Elevators stopped working between floors, stoplights stopped working at intersections and life-saving pacemakers were rendered useless.Mars King, Twin Cities, 30 Oct. 2024
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One is Eliot Spitzer, who during his abortive tenure as governor, knocked heads to get slow-mo insurers to pay the giant settlement that a court had awarded to Silverstein.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2024
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The picture arrives, of course, at a fallow time for Marvel after a string of duds and an abortive attempt to introduce a new superhero phase following the climactic, stage-clearing (and absurdly lucrative) battles of Avengers: Endgame.Zoe Guy, Vulture, 25 July 2024
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“Unsuccessful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsuccessful. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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