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Recent Examples of impracticable The plan’s 10-year phase-in period, which was intended to lower costs and make implementation more feasible, was criticized as impracticable. Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 July 2024 Contractual force majeure is rarely invoked and enforced to allow the nonperformance of contracts that have become either impossible or impracticable due to some catastrophic event, including natural disasters and wars. Alexander Talel, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023 Besides, the structure of Prescott’s contract makes that monumentally impracticable. Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2023 While guides to sustainable touring do exist, their suggestions are often unaffordable or impracticable for most musicians. Jake Blount, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2022 See All Example Sentences for impracticable
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Adjective
  • United fitting their best player, their most promising academy graduate and a new, £200million ($270m) front three into the same line-up suddenly looks entirely impractical — at least in this system.
    Mark Critchley, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
  • But Jeff Weinberg, an NBOA board member and president of Drexel Properties, said the ordinance’s goal of getting tenants, often strangers, to come together and buy a home is impractical.
    Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • This method is a significant departure from traditional chemical recycling techniques like pyrolysis, which operate at lower temperatures (450–600°C) and produce over a hundred different by-products, many of which are useless.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Economists usually look at new jobs, but immigration is now very low, making that figure useless as a measure of how the economy is doing.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025

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“Impracticable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impracticable. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.

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