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Recent Examples of unviable
That created uncertainty about whether some plans would be financially unviable, the company said.
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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
Read Next Business Boise-area developer scraps ‘economically unviable’ apartments.
—Marcus Dorsey, Idaho Statesman, 27 Mar. 2025
According to my doctor, the health concerns and complications of carrying an unviable pregnancy include infection, bleeding, sepsis, and death.
—Tara Lipinski, Allure, 15 Oct. 2024
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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
Read Next Business Boise-area developer scraps ‘economically unviable’ apartments.
—Marcus Dorsey, Idaho Statesman, 27 Mar. 2025
According to my doctor, the health concerns and complications of carrying an unviable pregnancy include infection, bleeding, sepsis, and death.
—Tara Lipinski, Allure, 15 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unviable
Adjective
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While Houston’s rally wasn’t quite as explosive, the Texans pulled off what once seemed impossible.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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There are great catches and there are impossible catches.—
The Athletic College Football Staff,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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McFadden has his own plan to reopen the jail — one that the state called unfeasible.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Oct. 2025
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One difficulty with this approach is that putting a cold plate on every single heat-producing component in a server is unfeasible.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The Empresa was discarded as unworkable — and not just because Spain was busy elsewhere.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Oct. 2025
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Louisiana says law is 'unworkable and unconstitutional' Louisiana, which months ago defended the map legislators drew to include two majority-Black districts, now rejects it.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This wide range makes ACBs viable for applications previously considered infeasible for Li batteries, such as devices in deserts or polar regions.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
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To break the encryption would mean finding a fast solution to these supposedly infeasible problems, an act that would overturn a foundational assumption of modern math.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Critics lambasted those policies as impractical at best, reckless at worst.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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The Countach is also famously impractical and a pain to drive, so the next buyer will likely be taking on a more-than-usual stewardship role in terms of old supercars, the service not being to themselves but to the wider community, which gets to look at the Countach rather than operate it.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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These reasons alone might be sufficient for those who hold the shares to consider taking profits or selling some of the upside option premium, anticipating that additional upside in the near term is unlikely.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
10 Nov. 2025
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After all, Butler’s own success—as a child of a Black family that moved West from Jim Crow Louisiana during the Great Migration—would have been considered very unlikely at the moment of her birth.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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