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Recent Examples of unviable
That can make a new business concept unviable.
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Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Primaries should theoretically weed out unviable candidates, but that didn’t happen last time.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
That created uncertainty about whether some plans would be financially unviable, the company said.
—Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
One former Magma Mine manager has some doubts After a near 25-year struggle to obtain Oak Flat for its copper, Resolution may find the location unviable, says one mining manager who knows the land and what lies beneath it well.
—Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Primaries should theoretically weed out unviable candidates, but that didn’t happen last time.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
That created uncertainty about whether some plans would be financially unviable, the company said.
—Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
One former Magma Mine manager has some doubts After a near 25-year struggle to obtain Oak Flat for its copper, Resolution may find the location unviable, says one mining manager who knows the land and what lies beneath it well.
—Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unviable
Adjective
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The shearling accent of the Arizona Suede Sandal lines the entire insole, combining the already comfortable footbed with a cloud-like, plush softness that makes taking these off impossible.—
Julia Morlino,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Jan. 2026
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Moriarty maintains that assessing whether charges are necessary would not be impossible despite the limitations.—
Caroline Cummings,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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GLP-1s work well for some people may not be that effective for others, or may come with side effects or costs that make taking them unfeasible, says Zumpano.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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His campaign upended local and national politics with an ambitious − critics say unfeasible − platform to tackle the cost of living through a rent freeze on a million city apartments, free buses, and free child care.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
1 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Being willing to drop his signature tax raising plan shows that Mamdani is focused on what’s ahead, not on sticking with unworkable campaign promises from the past.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
9 Jan. 2026
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The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), which represents about 150,000 small-business truckers, has called recent heavy-duty emissions and EV rules unworkable environmental mandates.—
Newsweek Editors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Dec. 2025
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And, in the hands of an experienced journalist, these data tools can help with projects that would have been infeasible even in the heyday of the business.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
23 Dec. 2025
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Before the City Council approved the changes on Tuesday, the only path forward for incompatible projects was through a hardship waiver that showed rehabilitation was technically, structurally or economically infeasible.—
Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
4 Dec. 2025
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Sanders’ proclamations state that conducting an election to meet that requirement was both impracticable and unduly burdensome, without further explaining her reasoning.—
John Lynch,
Arkansas Online,
22 Oct. 2025
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One is a single state with equal rights for Palestinians and Jews, which would be wonderful but is simply impracticable given attitudes on both sides.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Foreclosure would become nonviable as a means of tax collection — with no readily apparent alternative means for timely collection of the delinquent revenue.—
Todd Spangler,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Such pregnancies are nonviable and can be fatal to the mother.—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
1 Sep. 2025
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Nothing’s as sobering to an impractical but fun idea as having to foot the bill.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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By increasing effective gravity, researchers can accelerate years or even decades of structural and geological stress into just a few hours, enabling experiments that would be impractical in the real world.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Jan. 2026
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The move marks a departure from past administrations, which have typically moved quickly to open Justice Department civil rights reviews of fatal encounters involving law enforcement, even when criminal charges were considered unlikely.—
Greg Wehner , Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
14 Jan. 2026
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The Oval Office’s plan to force the Fed into submission is unlikely to work, Wall Street believes.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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