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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

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

The inapplicability of this progression idea to our object is evident directly we apply it to space.

From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Engels, Friedrich

Quite apart from the inapplicability of the Wyrons' experience to her own case, she now wondered whether theirs had in fact been experience at all.

From A Crooked Mile by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]