without success

idiom

: without achieving what one tried to do : unsuccessfully

He tried to repair the engine but without success.

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The family had searched the wreckage of Nir Oz many times in the hope of finding Kfir’s elephant but without success. —

Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 23 Jan. 2025 Police searched without success, and prosecutors said there was no indication that Stock was being truthful. —

Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025 Automatically charging young people as adults, regardless of offense, has been an issue several Democratic lawmakers have pushed for without success in previous General Assembly sessions in Annapolis, and the issue is expected to surface again this year. —

Mikenzie Frost, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2025 Various policymakers and politicians have been trying to do it for years, without success. —

Felix Salmon, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for without success

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without (so much as) a by your leave

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