as in unbearable
more than can be put up with
these high taxes are just unsupportable
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Recent Examples of unsupportable
Maryland families, already feeling the strain of rising utility bills and elevated vehicle prices, may have just dodged another expensive and unsupportable policy created by regulators nearly 3,000 miles away.
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Trent M. Kittleman, Baltimore Sun, 26 May 2025
Someone in this case simply made up a novel but completely unsupportable theory.
—Peter J Reilly, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Calling for mass deportation instead of providing undocumented immigrants some clemency for their wrongdoing in light of such a history of lawbreaking and pardons involves a double standard that is morally unsupportable.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
The complex math behind screening befuddled the researchers’ attempts to assess whether screening helped people live longer, leading to unsupportable conclusions.
—Peter B. Bach, STAT, 7 Sep. 2023
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Trent M. Kittleman, Baltimore Sun, 26 May 2025
Someone in this case simply made up a novel but completely unsupportable theory.
—Peter J Reilly, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Calling for mass deportation instead of providing undocumented immigrants some clemency for their wrongdoing in light of such a history of lawbreaking and pardons involves a double standard that is morally unsupportable.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
The complex math behind screening befuddled the researchers’ attempts to assess whether screening helped people live longer, leading to unsupportable conclusions.
—Peter B. Bach, STAT, 7 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsupportable
unbearable
Adjective
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Lori Coble was in the hospital with her own injuries from the crash when Rustad had the task of breaking the unbearable news about the loss of Kyle, Emma and Katie, who had been taken to different facilities.—
Erika I. Ritchie,
Oc Register,
24 Jan. 2026
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The distance is unbearable, & so the proximate.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Unsupportable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsupportable. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.
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