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Discover LudwigThe phrase "unreliable thing" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it when referring to something that is not dependable or trustworthy. For example, "My old car has been an unreliable thing lately; I can't seem to get it to start."
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Memory is a strange and unreliable thing, shaped often by a vignette, captured in a scent, a sound, a shard of emotion rather than factual detail.
But an off-the-cuff opinion instantly posted on the Internet is a changeable and unreliable thing.
Peter Bergen, an analyst who supervises the foundation's tally, called it "the least unreliable thing out there in the absence of any real U.S. government transparency". But lawmakers on the House and Senate oversight committees say media reports out of the tribal areas of Pakistan and Yemen list casualties that are refuted by video evidence.
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Our hunger for the authentic or the unmediated has mostly begotten us a cavalcade of deeply unreliable things, such as Donald Trump, laminate flooring, fake-fake news, artisanal moonshine, and reality television.
Lost in Showbiz is now picturing some mandarin blowing the dust off the departmental Discman and frowning his way through 2011's Sandwitches and wondering whether this is that "unreliable narrator" thing they dimly remember from A-level English.
Diesels disappeared from American cars in the 1980s because they were dirty, dull and unreliable.Two things, however, are reviving interest in them.
There are a lot of influential people out there who have seen it all before and know just how unreliable new things can be.
Consumers' memories are notoriously unreliable, for one thing.
But the current is a wild invisible thing, unreliable, whipping out with a looping arm to pull you in.
About 40 fuming residents recently attended a neighborhood meeting to blast OpenBand for services they call, among other things, unreliable and overpriced.
Everyone associated with Arsenal should be pleased with their victory but the Community Shield remains an unreliable gauge of things to come.
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