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unavailable

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/ ˌʌnəˈveɪləbəl /

adjective

  1. not obtainable or accessible

    unavailable for comment
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The BBC has apologised several times since Sunday's broadcast, and the ceremony remains unavailable to watch on iPlayer after the corporation removed it on Monday morning.

From BBC

Moving to the events of 13 June 2023, Moloney told the inquiry that recordings of police calls from the morning of the attacks were "seemingly lost or unavailable", which he described as "astonishing".

From BBC

Patients may be prescribed medicine unavailable in Greenland.

From The Wall Street Journal

Note: Coffee, electricity and ground beef data for October 2025 is unavailable.

From The Wall Street Journal

“If this is either inappropriate or unavailable then I apologise for asking,” he explained.

From The Wall Street Journal

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