as in inaccessible
hard or impossible to get to or get at
the commander is unavailable right now
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Recent Examples of unavailable
Critical medical supplies such as painkillers, gauze, and antibiotics are also unavailable.
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Philip Wang, Time, 9 Feb. 2026
With Heat guard Pelle Larsson unavailable, the Heat was forced to use another new starting lineup.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2026
Emma Stone teamed up with Squarespace, the website building and hosting company, for a 2026 Super Bowl commercial campaign that sees the Bugonia star venting her frustration that the domain of her name is unavailable for purchase.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
When Vangelis, too, was unavailable, Puttnam turned to Casablanca Records head Neil Bogart for help; Casablanca’s film division was behind the production of the movie.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 7 Feb. 2026
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Philip Wang, Time, 9 Feb. 2026
With Heat guard Pelle Larsson unavailable, the Heat was forced to use another new starting lineup.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2026
Emma Stone teamed up with Squarespace, the website building and hosting company, for a 2026 Super Bowl commercial campaign that sees the Bugonia star venting her frustration that the domain of her name is unavailable for purchase.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
When Vangelis, too, was unavailable, Puttnam turned to Casablanca Records head Neil Bogart for help; Casablanca’s film division was behind the production of the movie.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 7 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unavailable
inaccessible
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The film went out of circulation after a single television screening and has been largely inaccessible for nearly four decades.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2026
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But digital forensics experts kept working to find images in back-end software that might have been lost, corrupted or inaccessible.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Unavailable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unavailable. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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