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Recent Examples of unsustainable
This is an unsustainable path if the state hopes to avoid cutting health, education and other priorities.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
When feed costs become unsustainable, farmers may be forced to kill or sell off the breeding cows and sows that represent the future of the food supply.
—Aya S. Chacar, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026
But on insurer earnings calls, the payers position themselves as white knights sounding the alarm on providers using AI to raise health care costs to an unsustainable level.
—Brittany Trang, STAT, 8 Apr. 2026
The course the state is on with the exemptions is unsustainable and wasn’t anticipated when approved more than a decade ago, said Huffman, who was first elected to the Senate in 2008.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Apr. 2026
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
When feed costs become unsustainable, farmers may be forced to kill or sell off the breeding cows and sows that represent the future of the food supply.
—Aya S. Chacar, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026
But on insurer earnings calls, the payers position themselves as white knights sounding the alarm on providers using AI to raise health care costs to an unsustainable level.
—Brittany Trang, STAT, 8 Apr. 2026
The course the state is on with the exemptions is unsustainable and wasn’t anticipated when approved more than a decade ago, said Huffman, who was first elected to the Senate in 2008.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Apr. 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 20 Apr. 2026.
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