inadmissible

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Recent Examples of inadmissible 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 After the couple was declared inadmissible, Canadian authorities deported them back to the U.S., where they were detained at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility. Albinson Linares, NBC news, 6 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
  • 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, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • That level of discipline is not common in retail, especially when outsiders think the business is unimportant.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • This case would have determined whether one of Louisiana's two majority-Black Congressional Districts was an impermissible racial gerrymander.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Leonard would also like to see a new independent ethics commission housed within the Office of the Auditor General that could handle complaints alleging public employees engaged in impermissible political activities on the job, appeals of FOIA denials, disputes over NDAs and more.
    Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 3 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
  • Describing the damping precisely meant accidentally allowing forbidden precision in position or momentum.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Anthropic has introduced weekly rate limits for its Claude chatbot focused on curbing excessive—and forbidden—usage of Claude Code.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • Leading up to kickoff of Belichick’s debut at Chapel Hill, college football, this community and certainly the TV networks were thrilled with the prospect of this grouchy old man turning an irrelevant football team into something worth watching.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Natural gas fulfills much of this need, while coal is dirtier, expensive, and increasingly irrelevant for electricity production.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Unwavering loyalty Schrandt told ABC News that any deportations to Afghanistan are an unacceptable outcome.
    Chris Boccia, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Cosmetics are not the only place that regulators assessed an unacceptable level of risk.
    Keyaira Boone, Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Truth Teller reporters repeatedly go undercover to nail down relatively trivial scoops, appearing, in the process, to flagrantly violate the Society of Professional Journalists’ ethical guidelines.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Directed by Sammi Cohen, this film centers on Stacy Friedman (Sunny Sandler — Adam's younger daughter), whose bat mitzvah plans are hilariously derailed by trivial mishaps.
    James Mercadante, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025

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