unsustainable

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Recent Examples of unsustainable However, the deployment of AI just for the sake of it is proving unsustainable. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 June 2026 Unlike traditional air defense interceptors, the new weapon aims to bring down drones without imposing unsustainable costs on military budgets. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 June 2026 Many of the possible solutions are tied to two of the reasons CPS carries so much debt in the first place — an unsustainable number of school facilities and cyclical fiscal crises. Joe Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026 Structural issues in the roof have forced staff to install pipe jacks as temporary supports, and Leonard acknowledged the situation is unsustainable. Kevin Strong, CBS News, 15 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for unsustainable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsustainable
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Even if my archive was unverifiable or incongruous, the hazy, contradictory landscape of Goodman’s life was the truth of her existence.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • But MetroCard and cash payments were unverifiable for the teams, which are equipped with handheld readers that can ascertain whether an OMNY card, bank card or smartphone has recently been used to pay a fare.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The meat of the documentary is the different SNL presidents talking about their individual impressions, their origins and their causally unprovable impacts on the perception of those presidents.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
  • His first incompleteness theorem states that there are necessarily unprovable statements in all sufficiently strong, contradiction-free systems.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 26 May 2026

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“Unsustainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsustainable. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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