as in uncontrollable
given to resisting control or discipline by others
an unmanageable dog who had to be returned to the pound
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Recent Examples of unmanageable
The imperative now is to manage the unavoidable and avoid the unmanageable.
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Anjali Chaudhry,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Philadelphia missed good looks, looked heavy-legged and never found a response before the score had already gotten unmanageable.
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C.j. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
5 May 2026
Instead, government continues to grow at an alarming pace, into an unwieldy monster, impossibly big and unmanageable and expensive.
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Kevin Fixler
may 3,
Idaho Statesman,
3 May 2026
The argument for expansion has been percolating from the four power conferences, which have expanded to unmanageable numbers and costly coast-to-coast footprints.
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Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
3 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for unmanageable
Anjali Chaudhry,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Philadelphia missed good looks, looked heavy-legged and never found a response before the score had already gotten unmanageable.
—
C.j. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
5 May 2026
Instead, government continues to grow at an alarming pace, into an unwieldy monster, impossibly big and unmanageable and expensive.
—
Kevin Fixler
may 3,
Idaho Statesman,
3 May 2026
The argument for expansion has been percolating from the four power conferences, which have expanded to unmanageable numbers and costly coast-to-coast footprints.
—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
3 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for unmanageable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmanageable
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The jealousy that emanates from every pore of this guy is uncontrollable.
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An uncontrollable laugh when tickled is vastly different from a polite laugh in a meeting, an infectious laugh during a movie, or a nervous little giggle after making a mistake.
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The weather service’s forecast discussion for Kansas City said the stubborn heat could last through the Fourth of July.
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Against all odds, the stubborn housing market has become a hotspot for young talent.
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For as long as the American Dream has been around, homeownership was considered an intractable piece of the wealth-building puzzle.
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Two Ships is thus a narrative for our time, when the aspirational vision of oneness has given way to intractable twoness.
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The 26-year-old actress plays Oreana Jackson in the Yellowstone spinoff series, the daughter of the unruly Rob-Will (Jai Courtney) and granddaughter of Rio Paloma's resident ranch queen, Beulah Jackson (Annette Bening).
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Dinosaur quickly got banned from some Massachusetts venues for playing too loud with their unruly combination of punk aggression and guitar solo-heavy classic rock.
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While founder control is cited for long-term vision, the piece suggests alternative models like steward-ownership could foster accountability without sacrificing strategic focus, urging regulators to adapt to this new era of concentrated, potentially ungovernable corporate power.
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The vampiric Goldman Sachs that Taibbi describes is an institution, a system that became too big to fail, and thus ungovernable.
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Aviation experts said those conditions would have been difficult to navigate that evening when the helicopter, a Robinson R66, crashed in the Dawson Forest Wildlife Management Area.
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But traffic on the waterway remains a fraction of pre-war levels with different authorities vying to organize the transit of vessels, leaving operators with a difficult choice over which path to take.
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Part of the problem is that, outside of their tenants’ pleas, landlords face neither any real pressure nor any legal requirement to install shutters and ceiling fans; even owners who want to do so are thwarted by recalcitrant co-op boards or finicky historic-preservation reviews.
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The patron saint of the 2024 Democratic National Convention was Fannie Lou Hamer—recalcitrant sharecropper turned agitator and, like the Democratic presidential nominee, a black woman.
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What at first felt fun — like guiding a sweet wayward child — soon felt like a crazymaking psychological experiment.
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Power brings a warmer and more wayward sensibility to such material than, say, the German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose deadpan grids of coal tipples and water towers drained industrial structures of affect.
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“Unmanageable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmanageable. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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