inadmissible

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Recent Examples of inadmissible Duty lawyers argued that his confession was inadmissible because of a 1987 law that stated an adult should be present during the questioning of a child. Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 28 Feb. 2026 Information retrieved in violation of the bill is inadmissible in court. Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2026 However, if evidence has been mishandled, it might be deemed inadmissible in court. Gabriella Ybarra, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Feb. 2026 Continue reading … 'PACK YOUR BAGS' — Nancy Mace proposes bill to make aliens deportable, inadmissible for animal cruelty. FOXNews.com, 16 Feb. 2026 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
  • There’s no unimportant royal gossip, apparently.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 5 Apr. 2026
  • If however, we were often criticized and made to feel unimportant, our self-talk may be more negative.
    Joy Harden Bradford, AJC.com, 2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The speedometer must have ticked up from zero to a speed impermissible in Lusaka morning traffic jams.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Slavery had become ever more entrenched in America; this transformation had brought the fringe to the mainstream, made the unthinkable thinkable, the impermissible permissible.
    Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026
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
  • Less than an hour’s drive from the holiday markets, on the way to Salla and its forbidden frontier, hundreds of Finnish soldiers are training to repel any future Russian invasion.
    Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Women, whether secular or religious, remain forbidden to read, write or tell stories.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • If there’s a business model committed to preserving editorial quality and value, resources to invest in growth, and operators who actually know how to run media properties, the ownership structure is irrelevant.
    Jonathan Hunt, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Whatever entropy pre-existed in the Universe during inflation, or prior to it, is rendered wholly irrelevant.
    Big Think, Big Think, 9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Clearly, those are unacceptable results.
    Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Trump, back in Washington, told the New York Post that even the deal Vance brought was unacceptable.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Trotsky’s arguments about revolution in one nation versus a revolution of the international proletariat, like the fine argumentative tracery of Paul’s Jewish Christians versus Greek ones, seemed vital to the movement at the time but weirdly trivial and abstract to those outside it.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • This might all seem trivial, but a mere annoyance compounds when it must be repeated every week for the rest of your life.
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2026

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“Inadmissible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inadmissible. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.

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