adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a successful/unsuccessful coup
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The armed forces are too weak to mount a successful coup.
an unsuccessful/a successful attempt
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an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government
successful/unsuccessful applicant (= someone who is accepted or not accepted for a job etc )
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Successful applicants will be expected to travel extensively.
unsuccessful
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Efforts to save the hospital from closure have been unsuccessful.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
largely
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Abstract painting did have an equivalent in sculpture but it was largely unsuccessful .
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In this last crusade he was largely unsuccessful .
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However, he was largely unsuccessful in attempts to broaden the basis of his government's political support.
ultimately
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It was, of course, long before her marriage to Charles Bronson and her ultimately unsuccessful battle against cancer.
■ NOUN
applicant
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The Schedule also confers a right of appeal on an unsuccessful applicant or objector to the sheriff.
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An unsuccessful applicant could appeal to the regional committee.
attempt
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On March 4, however, 30 soldiers made an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government.
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Jack Lemmon, his longtime amateur partner, will be absent after 23 consecutive unsuccessful attempts to make the pro-am cut.
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Dark, scorched areas suggested that an unsuccessful attempt had been made to set fire to it.
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Candles flickered, incense burned in an unsuccessful attempt to cover the pungent smell of marijuana.
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Regrettably the customer's daughter died following unsuccessful attempts to find a suitable donor for a heart-lung transplant.
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Last week they went to the Court of Session in an unsuccessful attempt to have Thursday's meeting blocked.
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At an earlier hearing the court heard that the police had made unsuccessful attempts to serve the complaint.
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No doubt the dead man had returned in an unsuccessful attempt to save his friend from a similar fate.
bid
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The move follows an unsuccessful bid by Mr Foster to get the board to reinstate the facility Teesdale farmers regard as essential.
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Hilton and Boomtown previously made an unsuccessful bid for a license in Lawrenceburg, Ind.
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They danced, and he made an unsuccessful bid on a weekend at Hilton Head.
candidate
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It will be much easier to reactivate the application of an unsuccessful candidate who has been let down gently.
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Babbitt, 54, a former Governor of Arizona, was an unsuccessful candidate for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.
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In 1721 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the chair of astronomy at Oxford.
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Chief executive Tom Hughes said the reason for the delay was to inform the unsuccessful candidates before a public announcement was made.
effort
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Their unsuccessful efforts included a move to block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing provisions of environmental laws now on the books.
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After several unsuccessful efforts , they would become discouraged and often would begin to spit up.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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unsuccessful negotiations
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an unsuccessful artist
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I regret to inform you that your application was unsuccessful .
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The army made an unsuccessful attempt to end the rebellion.
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Their attempts to crush the revolt were unsuccessful .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An unsuccessful interview sounded like a bad accident.
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Bills promoted both by backbenchers and ministers to reform the law have been unsuccessful .
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He has already made three unsuccessful shots at the presidency.
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Mr Palomar's attempt to isolate the wave is a difficult and repeatedly unsuccessful one.
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The journalist blinked at her for a few seconds before his tanned face collapsed, reminding Blanche of one of her unsuccessful soufflés.
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The Society was substantially unsuccessful in its aim of persuading other charities to adopt the same methods.