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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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These rural hospitals are ill-equipped to handle such emergencies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He referred to the frequent complaints from industry that new recruits from school were ill-equipped with basic skills.
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His crew sawed off the protruding bar before taking him to an ill-equipped doctor.
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If he was surprised by the grubbiness of the ill-equipped Vicarage kitchen he concealed it.
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Libraries might be ill-equipped to handle the deposit of records in electronic form, but its deposit should be encouraged.
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She was frigid and strait-laced and therefore somewhat ill-equipped to keep me on the straight and narrow.
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They are similarly ill-equipped to deal with lions.