nonviable

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Recent Examples of nonviable Experts who reviewed ProPublica’s data wondered if the increase in transfusions might be driven by more women experiencing complications of ectopic or molar pregnancies, rare nonviable pregnancies in which the likelihood of a blood transfusion is much higher than for a spontaneous miscarriage. Andrea Suozzo, ProPublica, 1 July 2025 These threats erupted after the Wall Street Journal reported on my life-threatening ectopic pregnancy—a nonviable pregnancy with no heartbeat. Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025 Thus, access to some of the most effective contraceptive methods could be jeopardized at a time when the right to terminate an unintended or nonviable pregnancy has been rolled back in much of the country. Carol S. Weisman, The Conversation, 23 June 2025 The pregnancy is nonviable, and can be life-threatening if not removed. Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for nonviable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonviable
Adjective
  • The Chargers’ end-of-season performance will have a lot to do with whether the Chiefs will pull off the borderline impossible.
    Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Yet dystopian fears are impossible to shrug off, especially since the technology stands to concentrate even more wealth and power into even fewer hands.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • But if walking was really unworkable, why was Apple Maps offering me a route?
    Sean Gregory, Time, 11 June 2026
  • Two Capital Systems That Both Fail Mission Founders Social-impact tech founders are currently trapped between two unworkable systems.
    Aparna Rae, Forbes.com, 4 June 2026
Adjective
  • For their part, do politicians and agency leaders like it when their pet projects are assessed by intelligence as unwise or infeasible?
    Gregory F. Treverton, The Conversation, 8 June 2026
  • The team at Mullvad and the researcher who discovered the bug both reported the issue to Google via the Android issue tracker, but Google closed it as infeasible to fix.
    Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 15 May 2026
Adjective
  • Ciddi argued that the scheme is unviable.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 14 June 2026
  • Currently, the process for obtaining data typically revolves around subscribing to APIs that charge a monthly credit card fee, and where one-off transactions are economically unviable.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 26 May 2026
Adjective
  • O'Leary and other experts say testing mothers for the virus shortly before or after delivery is unfeasible, because most hospitals lack the staff and resources.
    Jackie Fortiér, NPR, 3 Dec. 2025
  • O'Leary and other experts say testing mothers for the virus shortly before or after delivery is unfeasible, because most hospitals lack the staff and resources.
    Jackie Fortiér, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • In court filings, the agency argued that changing testing protocols was unnecessary and impracticable.
    Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Few school districts will be able to afford costly litigation over opt-out rights or to divert resources to administering impracticable notice and opt-out systems for individual students.
    Stephen L. Carter, Mercury News, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • There are better ways to eliminate smoking than impose an impractical mandate that creates a permanent class of disenfranchised adults.
    Alex Weatherall, Boston Herald, 10 June 2026
  • Disproportionate chair or lighting size feels off—and can be impractical, too.
    Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 10 June 2026
Adjective
  • But as the trial approached, both plaintiff and defendant sources indicated that a mid-trial settlement was unlikely.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The race to the bottom has been so ferocious this year that Beijing stepped in to rein in manufacturers, though economists believe deflationary pressures are unlikely to ease soon.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 11 Dec. 2025

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“Nonviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonviable. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.

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