unsuccessfully challenge
Frequency: 6.05.5 per million words
to challenge without success
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Examples (10)
- The defense lawyer unsuccessfully challenged the admissibility of the evidence.
- He unsuccessfully challenged the incumbent senator for the party's nomination.
- The young boxer unsuccessfully challenged the reigning heavyweight champion for the title.
- Our startup unsuccessfully challenged the tech giant's market dominance.
- In her dissertation, she unsuccessfully challenged a long-held scientific theory.
- They have twice unsuccessfully challenged the decision through the official appeals process.
- The student unsuccessfully challenged the teacher's grading, as the rubric was quite clear.
- If they unsuccessfully challenge the ruling again, they will face significant fines.
- The board's authority was unsuccessfully challenged by a group of disgruntled shareholders.
- Despite raising valid points, the activist group unsuccessfully challenged the new environmental policy.