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Recent Examples of unsuccessful Attempts to reach James Mayfield and Matt Mayfield were unsuccessful. Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2024 Their rushed announcement created a media circus, and when hasty attempts to replicate their results were unsuccessful, the discrediting of their claims was rapid and vehement. IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2024 After another attempt to extract him on the morning of Nov. 23 was also unsuccessful, the decision was made to amputate his leg to facilitate his rescue. Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024 Multiple resuscitation attempts are unsuccessful, with the girl’s fate among two major cliffhangers in the finale. Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for unsuccessful 
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Adjective
  • In 2016, more than 80 percent of Taiwanese people believed that resistance in a potential conflict with China would be futile; by 2022, the proportion of the population expressing this view had nearly halved to 43 percent.
    David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
  • After making a futile effort to revive Asahi with chest compressions, Masa orders No. 17 to sleep and then to wake again.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Wet down is generally useless—all those air pockets that trap heat are gone.
    Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2024
  • However, there's a 250MB limit on individual files, making Box's free version useless for anyone working with video or large audio files, such as podcast recordings.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 6 Dec. 2024.

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