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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
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In the early hours of February 24 2022, standing on the freezing roof of a hotel in Kyiv, the idea that Russia would launch a full-scale assault on Ukraine, despite a troop buildup on the border, still seemed almost impossible to imagine.—
Matthew Chance,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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As a skilled legal advocate, Andrew is known for listening first, acting with purpose, and guiding others through systems that often feel impossible to navigate.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
20 Feb. 2026
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However, semiconductor analysts broadly agree with Cheng’s assessment that Washington’s most ambitious onshoring plans are unfeasible, citing the difficulties of relocating such an advanced supply chain.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
10 Feb. 2026
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Republicans have dismissed the idea as unfeasible.—
Sophie Brams,
The Hill,
9 Feb. 2026
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Other Republicans have rejected several Democratic requests as unrealistic or unworkable.—
Toluse Olorunnipa,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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The Justice Department argued in a reply filed Sunday that the stay should remain in place, calling the injunction unworkable and overly broad.—
Steve Karnowski,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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Trying to fix the retirement program is infeasible.—
Ramesh Ponnuru,
Washington Post,
25 Feb. 2026
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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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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
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The vet team amputated nonviable tissue from the tegu's tongue.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
30 Jan. 2026
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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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But this season, the looks that made the highest impact eschewed function for jaw-dropping, delightfully impractical looks.—
Kara Jillian Brown,
InStyle,
19 Feb. 2026
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Testers found the concept impractical due to clothing sleeves and the difficulty of capturing usable camera angles from the wrist.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Rufe said the federal government was unlikely to succeed at trial.—
TASSANEE VEJPONGSA,
Arkansas Online,
21 Feb. 2026
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Even if a blockade in the Strait remains unlikely, disruption caused by a US attack could nevertheless send oil prices even higher, above their the recent gains – perhaps by another $10 a barrel, Tuttle said.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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