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Government lawyers have defended the legality of these purchases—and the inapplicability of Carpenter—by arguing that the government is a customer like any other.

From Slate • May 9, 2022

Their inapplicability deeply embarrasses us whenever we come to recognize that we are not who and what we say we are.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2017

I am free to confess that theodicies of all sorts strike me as proofs of the inapplicability of the religious view of the world.

From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Sellars, Roy Wood

One of the evils of an abstract or remote external aim in education is that its very inapplicability in practice is likely to react into a haphazard snatching at immediate conditions.

From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John

This in fact is the secret of that writer's vile sophistry on the subject, and at once confutes it, by proving the inapplicability of his argument.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Kerr, Robert