Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That cannot be adapted; not admitting of adaptation; unsuitable.
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- adjective Not
adaptable .
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Examples
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The potential for overreach of CISADA's "energy" classification may be reminiscent of restrictions and prohibitions on exports prohibited in pre-war Iraq, specifically when non-weaponized materials such as x-ray machines, entirely inadaptable to weaponization were characterized as "dual use" materials, the only significant result of that policy was to deprive sick Iraqi civilians of basic care.
Sean Penn: A State Department That Can Sean Penn 2011
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The potential for overreach of CISADA's "energy" classification may be reminiscent of restrictions and prohibitions on exports prohibited in pre-war Iraq, specifically when non-weaponized materials such as x-ray machines, entirely inadaptable to weaponization were characterized as "dual use" materials, the only significant result of that policy was to deprive sick Iraqi civilians of basic care.
Sean Penn: A State Department That Can Sean Penn 2011
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The potential for overreach of CISADA's "energy" classification may be reminiscent of restrictions and prohibitions on exports prohibited in pre-war Iraq, specifically when non-weaponized materials such as x-ray machines, entirely inadaptable to weaponization were characterized as "dual use" materials, the only significant result of that policy was to deprive sick Iraqi civilians of basic care.
Sean Penn: A State Department That Can Sean Penn 2011
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The potential for overreach of CISADA's "energy" classification may be reminiscent of restrictions and prohibitions on exports prohibited in pre-war Iraq, specifically when non-weaponized materials such as x-ray machines, entirely inadaptable to weaponization were characterized as "dual use" materials, the only significant result of that policy was to deprive sick Iraqi civilians of basic care.
Sean Penn: A State Department That Can Sean Penn 2011
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The potential for overreach of CISADA's "energy" classification may be reminiscent of restrictions and prohibitions on exports prohibited in pre-war Iraq, specifically when non-weaponized materials such as x-ray machines, entirely inadaptable to weaponization were characterized as "dual use" materials, the only significant result of that policy was to deprive sick Iraqi civilians of basic care.
Sean Penn: A State Department That Can Sean Penn 2011
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The potential for overreach of CISADA's "energy" classification may be reminiscent of restrictions and prohibitions on exports prohibited in pre-war Iraq, specifically when non-weaponized materials such as x-ray machines, entirely inadaptable to weaponization were characterized as "dual use" materials, the only significant result of that policy was to deprive sick Iraqi civilians of basic care.
Sean Penn: A State Department That Can Sean Penn 2011
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For the second time in human experience the inadaptable quality of the financial and proprietary organization produced a strangulation and an arrest.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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Utopian lines; there will be no illiterates unless they are unteachable imbeciles, no rule-of-thumb toilers as inadaptable as trained beasts.
A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006
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Two or more population groups, each with its own special narrow and inadaptable culture and usually with a distinctive language or dialect, had been by the change of scale in human affairs jammed together or imposed one upon another.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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During the last twenty years a peculiarly inadaptable type of building has been developed in Holland by a group of younger architects.
The Art of the Exposition Eugen Neuhaus 1921
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