How to Use ill-equipped in a Sentence
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Mihdhar and Hazmi, who were both in their mid-20s, were notably ill-equipped to make their way in the West.
—Tim Golden, ProPublica, 27 Apr. 2023
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Mihdhar and Hazmi, who were both in their mid-20s, were notably ill-equipped to make their way in the West.
—Tim Golden, ProPublica, 27 Apr. 2023
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Cerel said that with limited funding, schools are ill-equipped to do more.
—Erika Edwards, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2023
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Plagued by illnesses and ill-equipped for frontier life, the group soon gave up and retreated to New Orleans.
—John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
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The encampment sprawled across a grassy plateau, where Washington arrived at the head of a contingent of weary and ill-equipped soldiers.
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
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Still, Musk’s platform is hardly alone in being ill-equipped for the next phase of this arms race, and the rest of Silicon Valley may not fare much better.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
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Our children become adults, who enter the workforce ill-equipped to budget, manage debt, invest and save.
—Petros Koumantaros, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
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These groups have been ill-equipped and poorly trained throughout the war, and have struggled at times to maintain defensive positions.
—Mary Ilyushina, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
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These groups have been ill-equipped and poorly trained throughout the war, and have struggled at times to maintain defensive positions.
—Mary Ilyushina, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
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Hospitals in the south, already overcrowded and stretched for resources, are ill-equipped to receive any more people.
—Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
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India's public healthcare system is woefully ill-equipped, plagued by a dearth of staff and equipment.
—Fox News, 3 Oct. 2023
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For one thing, many of the regions growing in susceptibility to hurricanes are ill-equipped to handle storms with winds of 100 mph or more.
—Devika Rao, The Week, 1 June 2023
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For one thing, many of the regions growing in susceptibility to hurricanes are ill-equipped to handle storms with winds of 100 mph or more.
—Devika Rao, The Week, 1 June 2023
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When the program finally had vaccines, the shots presented challenges that weak health systems were ill-equipped to manage.
—Rebecca Robbins, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
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Despite having watched the previous three years of war with horror and alarm, U.S. forces were still ill-equipped, lacking the new weapons of war, including machine guns, aircraft, and tanks.
—Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2023
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Experts say federal regulators, law enforcement, and the courts are ill-equipped to rein in the burgeoning scam.
—Pranshu Verma, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2023
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Though not nearly as squishy, sloppy, or ill-equipped for cornering as its antecedents, the vehicle is also not quite a Mustang on stilts, either.
—Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2023
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Many of its 2,000 or so personnel in the camps are fresh out of basic training and ill-equipped to combat militant groups, said Syed Harun Or Rashid, battalion commander.
—Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
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But this latest tragedy again dramatized for many how Mexico is ill-equipped to handle the influx of U.S.-bound migrants transiting the country.
—Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
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But the cohort is simply so big and our nation’s retirement system remains woefully ill-equipped to deal with their exit.
—Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
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War-weary South Sudan — one of the world’s poorest countries — is ill-equipped to absorb Sudanese refugees or returning expatriates.
—Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
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That the company is still in business and touting how little the settlement matters underscores how truly underpowered and ill-equipped the FTC is for the job it's been asked to perform.
—Dell Cameron, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2024
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Etienne Ouamouno, whose toddler Emile was the first to die, is tormented by the reality that, should one of his surviving children get sick today, Meliandou remains just as ill-equipped to help.
—Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
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The few hospitals left standing after years of Russian and Syrian regime bombardment were ill-equipped to deal with an emergency of this magnitude.
—Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
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Congress is ill-equipped to proactively identify and treat every at-risk young person who might otherwise turn to violence.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2023
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State and local authorities that conduct elections are often under-resourced and over-worked, leaving them ill-equipped to cope with rising challenges.
—Loren Thompson, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
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The tensions underscore the formidable obstacles confronting new migrants, many of whom are unusually ill-equipped to begin the process of finding steady work.
—Ana Ley Juan Arredondo, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
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Although Wells Fargo is rumored to be a candidate, Popeo warned that onlookers without direct knowledge are ill-equipped to speculate.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 4 Mar. 2023
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Last year, Congress, worried that some states were ill-equipped to properly handle the number of calls that would flood lines during the Medicaid process, required states to submit data about their call volume, wait times and abandonment rate.
—Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 29 Apr. 2023
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Last year, Congress, worried that some states were ill-equipped to properly handle the number of calls that would flood lines during the Medicaid process, required states to submit data about their call volume, wait times and abandonment rate.
—Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 29 Apr. 2023
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