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Recent Examples of unsustainable
Increasingly, the initiative has been seen as luring in low income countries with promises of lofty investment, but saddling them with unsustainable debts.
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Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
But such steadfast positions often prove unsustainable in modern football, as head coach Vitor Pereira tacitly acknowledged in the aftermath of Tuesday night’s drama.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
But today, limiting lending to governments is at the core of protecting price stability from unsustainable fiscal spending.
—Ana Carolina Garriga, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025
And progress without pleasure is unsustainable.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
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Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
But such steadfast positions often prove unsustainable in modern football, as head coach Vitor Pereira tacitly acknowledged in the aftermath of Tuesday night’s drama.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
But today, limiting lending to governments is at the core of protecting price stability from unsustainable fiscal spending.
—Ana Carolina Garriga, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025
And progress without pleasure is unsustainable.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsustainable
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Remote work, low rates, and investor FOMO drove prices to unsupportable highs.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 July 2025
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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.—
Trent M. Kittleman,
Baltimore Sun,
26 May 2025
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While that sort of thing is par for the course—this time of year, every company that sells TV inventory at scale indulges in a bit of vague, unverifiable boasting about its upfront haul—the status of WBD’s futures market is of particular concern given the erasure of all that NBA commercial tonnage.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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Often, their claims are delivered in sweeping, unverifiable statements, and banks don’t comment publicly on individual clients.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
6 Aug. 2025
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Oswego County locals say the sheriff’s patrol is stopping Latino drivers for minor or unprovable violations, then handing them over to Border Patrol.—
Mina Aguilar,
New York Daily News,
29 July 2025
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Up here, most questions are fundamentally unprovable, and uncertainty reigns.—
Gregory Barber,
Quanta Magazine,
20 June 2025
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“Unsustainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsustainable. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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