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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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