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Recent Examples of unsustainable
The greatest threat to FQHCs may be less about federal funding itself, which is largely out of their control, and more about the reality that mission critical care is financially unsustainable under their current model.
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Courtney McFarland, STAT, 17 Mar. 2026
Organizers, who have hosted the Hmong New Year celebration for 40 years, have called those costs unsustainable.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2026
Ponza is an unpredictable and unsustainable microcosm.
—Kristina Kasparian, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2026
In court this week, Raju described an unsustainable workload in his office.
—David Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
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Courtney McFarland, STAT, 17 Mar. 2026
Organizers, who have hosted the Hmong New Year celebration for 40 years, have called those costs unsustainable.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2026
Ponza is an unpredictable and unsustainable microcosm.
—Kristina Kasparian, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2026
In court this week, Raju described an unsustainable workload in his office.
—David Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsustainable
Adjective
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Currah’s opinion piece is wrong on the facts, the law, and the science, and reaches unsupportable conclusions.—
Paisley Currah,
The New York Review of Books,
18 Dec. 2025
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The venerable but troubled outlet has been for sale since its previous owners ran up unsupportable debts and were removed in 2023.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
24 Nov. 2025
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Researchers contend with a patchwork of numbers Figures the administration has released are inconsistent and unverifiable.—
Rebecca Santana,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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Figures the administration has released are inconsistent and unverifiable.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Researchers already had reason to believe that the pigeonhole principle can’t be proved from the axioms of PV1 alone, so Li, Chen and Oliveira’s results imply that their other equivalent theorems are also likely unprovable in PV1.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
1 Dec. 2025
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Given that many of Epstein’s correspondents are redacted and that threads start and stop randomly, many of the emails are perfect building blocks for constructing plausible but ultimately unprovable narratives.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
14 Nov. 2025
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“Unsustainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsustainable. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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