unusable
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Synonyms
impracticable, impractical, inoperable, nonpractical, unserviceable, unworkable, useless
Antonyms
applicable, feasible, functional, operable, operational, practicable, practical, serviceable, ultrapractical, usable (also useable), useful, utilizable, workable
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The suspicious death of Jeffrey Epstein: the autopsy findings and the unusable surveillance video. — Los Angeles Times, "What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’ on NBC," 9 Sep. 2019 This complicated system, called Daisy, combines automation and a human touch to give Apple its coveted result: scraps of pure plastic, metal, and glass from otherwise-unusable iPhones. — Fortune, "Someday, Apple May Make Your New iPhone Out of Pieces of Your Old iPhone," 19 Aug. 2019 In the case of Cerebras, the company designs in redundant processing cores, anticipating that defects will render some of them unusable. — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, "Cerebras Systems' new deep-learning chip is as big as your keyboard, and the largest ever," 19 Aug. 2019 Unfortunately, the methodology used to calculate it and the ecological footprint on which it is based is conceptually flawed and practically unusable in any science or policy context. — Robert B. Richardson, The Conversation, "Resource depletion is a serious problem, but ‘footprint’ estimates don’t tell us much about it," 24 July 2019 The invasions included ransomware, which makes a computer's files unusable unless the device's user or owner pays a ransom, and phishing, in which emails that look legitimate are used to steals information. — Joyce M. Rosenberg, USA TODAY, "Small businesses vulnerable to cyberattacks, then don't act, new survey finds," 18 June 2018 Suddenly the hashtag was flooded with thousands of tweets that included random content that had nothing to do with the protests, rendering the hashtag unusable, according to journalists who documented the attack. — Kate Linthicum, latimes.com, "Mexico has its own fake news crisis. These journalists are fighting back," 15 Apr. 2018 Wafers incur defects when circuits are burned into them, and those areas become unusable. — Fortune, "Seeking Big A.I. Advances, a Startup Turns to a Huge Computer Chip," 19 Aug. 2019 But when Apple locked my account, all of my devices became virtually unusable. — Luke Kurtis, Quartz, "Apple locked me out of its walled garden. It was a nightmare," 13 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unusable.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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