unsustainable

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Recent Examples of unsustainable Gold bulls, bears and bugs alike have been aware that its angle of ascent looked unsustainable. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025 The Bangladesh Shipping Agents Association (BSAA) has called the increase unsustainable, suggesting instead a gradual implementation over six to twelve months with a 10–15 percent rise. Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 20 Oct. 2025 Critics have said some of his own proposals sound financially unsustainable, and that the campaign promises on his website are short on details around how they’d be achieved. Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025 But Emma Walmsley, chief executive officer of GSK, isn’t sold on the leadership model, which is based, in part, on the idea that the CEO role has grown too vast—even unsustainable—for one person to handle. Nino Paoli, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unsustainable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsustainable
Adjective
  • Remote work, low rates, and investor FOMO drove prices to unsupportable highs.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • There are details in all eight episodes that are based on verifiable facts, but anything unverifiable, anything that might have happened, even in Ed’s mind, is fair game for Monster, too.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The sting took place along Interstate 40, where officials found most offenders with unverifiable licenses behind the wheels of 80,000-pound 18-wheelers.
    Christina Shaw, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 29 Oct. 2025.

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