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Recent Examples of unworkable Yet that path now looks unworkable. Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025 But their aims largely run counter to one another: One bill is accused of doing too much and implementing unworkable rules. Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2025 But as the demonstration began to wind down, police and protest organizers sparred over the number of arrests as the organizers sought to show that the law was unworkable. Danica Kirka, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025 However, having a bulky transformer near each circuit element is unworkable. IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for unworkable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unworkable
Adjective
  • But as someone who lives in an NYC apartment and doesn’t have the worries of car ownership or a pet to clean up after, the machine felt bulky and impractical for my lifestyle.
    Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The girls are wearing heeled white dance shoes that are defiantly impractical for the city streets, in striking contrast to the robust sneakers that everyone else has on.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Because social platforms have not trained their detection models on sufficient non-English-language and non-Western data, much of the AI-fakes detection technology is still very shaky, if not useless, in the Global South and across the developing world.
    John Wihbey, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
  • House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) suggested on Friday that returning to Washington would be all but useless.
    Zach LaChance, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Financial promotion rules prevent inappropriate marketing to unsuitable investors.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • According to a study published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment in 2024, up to 70% of current wine-producing regions could become unsuitable for growing grapes if global temperatures rise by more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
    Miguel A. Torres, Time, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Unworkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unworkable. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.

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