unsustainable

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Recent Examples of unsustainable Varsho is hitting homers on over 30 percent of his fly balls, which is unsustainable, but raw power can’t be faked. Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 19 May 2025 Now all three agencies have said the U.S. fiscal situation is unsustainable. / Cbs News, CBS News, 18 May 2025 Newark often has 80 or more flights per hour, Kirby noted in the statement, calling the number unsustainable. Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 12 May 2025 The federal budget deficits piling up are unsustainable. The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for unsustainable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsustainable
Adjective
  • 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
Adjective
  • Creditor interventions – The team challenges inaccurate or unverifiable information with credit bureaus and creditors.
    Victor Rosario, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The figure remains unverifiable and DOGE's website claims to have posted only 30% of the receipts supporting this total.
    Riley Hoffman, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • One fear is therefore that the Collatz problem is one of the unprovable statements of mathematics.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 25 July 2024
  • Greenwashing involves unfounded or unprovable claims of environmental sustainability.
    Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024

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“Unsustainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsustainable. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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