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Recent Examples of unavailing The position advanced by the states is legally unavailing as a matter of longstanding and well-established law. WSJ, 25 July 2018 Efforts to aid him with lifeboats, three of which were ineffectually trying to breast the heavy sea, were unavailing, while a lifeline, held by a number of rescuers, was carried far out into the surf by a number of swimmers. sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unavailing
Adjective
  • Understanding each other is futile.
    Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The court fights all proved futile, however.
    George Avalos, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Mellon family foundation did not respond to Fortune’s request for comment, and attempts by the Times to reach Mellon were unsuccessful.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The two-point conversion attempt was unsuccessful.
    Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But to borrow Manidis’s framework, the drive to create such a tool conflates useless toil with meaningful labor.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The rules of grammar were useless now, and never truly rules.
    Sam Lipsyte, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Unavailing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unavailing. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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