inadmissible

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Recent Examples of inadmissible The torture the men experienced at the hands of CIA operatives has made some evidence against them inadmissible in court. Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025 Years of defense and prosecution testimony are ongoing about how much the sustained torture of Mohammed and other defendants in CIA custody renders their later statements legally inadmissible. Ellen Knickmeyer, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025 The idea that questions of value and spirituality are private matters, inadmissible to public conversations, is a relic of the dying system. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024 The brothers were tried together and parts of the evidence of abuse were declared inadmissible in court. Solcyré Burga, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for inadmissible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inadmissible
Adjective
  • For example, Customs and Border Protection in the United States maintains a list of prohibited and restricted items for anyone entering the US and links to other departments if permits are required.
    Erica Kasper, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2024
  • Travelers can visit the CBP website to learn more about prohibited and restricted items.
    Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 May 2024
Adjective
  • But that’s not because the work of the public sector itself is unimportant.
    Adam Chandler, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Council President Joe LaCava defended the city’s focus on something so relatively unimportant compared to closing a $258 million deficit that is expected to require substantial budget cuts.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Sampson was temporarily exiled from college basketball after resigning from Indiana under NCAA scrutiny for violations of a rule (impermissible phone calls to recruits) that has since been removed from the rule books.
    CJ Moore, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
  • On Wednesday, Moore posted a letter on social media, calling the banishment by Burns an impermissible censorship of his voice.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • These are responses that may sound correct at first, but turn out to be wrong (like your crazy uncle’s Thanksgiving table advice), often due to inapplicable or inaccurate information being used to train the models.
    Dean DeBiase, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Pavia could argue Bewley is inapplicable since while the Bewley brothers were paid to play in OTE, there is no comparable point for Pavia.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 24 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Thompson, Ha and Brownell also say that Season 4 will dive much more into the Regency era’s upstairs-downstairs class politics than previous seasons, due to Sophie being of a lower class than Benedict and the Bridgerton family, as well as the fairytale and forbidden love tropes.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The clever canine is captured standing frozen, waiting for the all clear, before attempting to climb onto a forbidden couch in a post to the platform by @maltimasi_ on January 30.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • That's a day where those two objects are completely irrelevant.
    Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
  • All that’s missing from this run for Sampson is a national title, but whether that comes or not, this is a legendary stretch at a school that was a has-been, irrelevant in the sport with no sign of hope.
    CJ Moore, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Environmental groups have long opposed the new reservoir and objected to a shorter judicial review, saying the project will release unacceptable amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas, into the air in addition to other adverse impacts.
    Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The alternative — courts that fail to protect our fundamental rights — is unacceptable.
    Peter Martin, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • So that seems to apply even to sports, something that seems kind of trivial.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Identifying whether a stock will rise or fall and when that move will happen are not trivial questions.
    Michael Khouw, CNBC, 6 Feb. 2025

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