inadmissible

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Recent Examples of inadmissible It cannot be presumed that any clause in the constitution is intended to be without effect; and therefore such construction is inadmissible, unless the words require it. Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 29 July 2025 Criminal convictions can make immigrants inadmissible to remain in the country. Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025 On Wednesday, The Globe and Mail reported that the Canada Border Services Agency had identified 20 people deemed inadmissible because they are believed to be senior Iranian officials. Christopher Guly, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025 Medical exams are similar to physical exams and include checks for specific conditions or diseases that could render a person inadmissible to the U.S. Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for inadmissible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inadmissible
Adjective
  • There is, however, room for questions about where the line between prohibited and acceptable political involvement will fall in practice.
    BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 11 July 2025
  • The list of prohibited and restricted items, as found on the CBP website, includes alcohol, biological materials, firearms, food and produce such as fruits and vegetables, soil, wildlife, fish, and gold, among other items.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • That may seem like a small and unimportant distinction to the non-Macca-heads among us.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Those tests that pick up most cancers tend to pick up other unimportant things as well — and those screening tests that are limited to discovering cancer often miss many people with the disease.
    Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • One move would be for Comey’s lawyers to try to have the charges thrown out on the grounds of vindictive or selective prosecution, basically arguing that Comey was targeted for impermissible reasons.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Poggi is just the caretaker who’s running the team during Moore’s suspension, which is tied to the NCAA’s ruling in the Connor Stalions impermissible scouting investigation.
    Austin Meek, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In 2023, the Supreme Court declared the bill inapplicable.
    Javier Bastardo, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Here are the kicking motion rules, which the NHL deemed inapplicable given their determination that Hellebuyck propelled the puck into his own net.
    Murat Ates, New York Times, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • Lina, a young woman facing harsh coming-of-age rituals, forms a forbidden connection with a man.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • With every temptation, Jesus is lured into a forbidden world, and a terrified Joseph soon realizes that a demonic power is at work.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • There is this constant projection from bad-faith actors, who find the truth irrelevant to their desires to rhetorically position the work that artists are doing—and even reality itself.
    Helen Molesworth, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • My teaching skills were basically irrelevant.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Violence anywhere, especially in a place of worship, is unacceptable.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Other Republicans — especially in the House — see it as an unacceptable expansion of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, which Republicans have tried to eliminate or cut back since it was enacted 15 years ago.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • For Washington, this was no trivial matter.
    Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Afterward, a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) investigation concluded that the economic impact was small, but not trivial.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025

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