unviable

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Recent Examples of unviable Smaller insurance companies with local concentration may become unviable and only national behemoths will survive through rate increases. Phillip Molnar, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2025 This could make the project as a whole unviable, resulting in it simply never deploying. Eric Siegel, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025 The 7pm slot is unusual but is a league contingency when other kick-off times are unavailable or unviable. Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024 Some want to see basic protections for contraception and in-vitro fertilization treatments codified into law, or more authority given to physicians to care for women with unviable pregnancies. David Farré, The Tennessean, 26 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unviable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unviable
Adjective
  • Certain habits—like checking work Slack or eating too close to bedtime—can keep the nervous system in overdrive and make restful sleep feel impossible.
    Caitlin Pagán, Verywell Health, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The chances of getting your hands on tulip bulb in the spring is impossible, says Hutchins.
    Lauren David, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Correa also argued that assigning national security responsibilities to the Department of Education, especially amid the Trump administration’s efforts to shut down the department, is unfeasible.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The utility found that purchasing new generators would make the plant economically unfeasible, said Blind, who was engineering director at Palisades during that time.
    Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But Democratic members said the legislature was already open and transparent and that the prior version of the law was unworkable in the Capitol.
    Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2025
  • But their plan to divest almost 600 stores to a grocery wholesaler with scant experience in retail was deemed unworkable by the judge.
    Peter Green, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • While a traffic signal remains infeasible at the intersection, staff and the applicant agreed to further traffic calming methods such as signage and striping to enhance the safety of vehicles traveling on the road.
    Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
  • At the time, however, the strategy proved infeasible.
    Stephen Peter Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But his chairman had requested the impracticable.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The plan’s 10-year phase-in period, which was intended to lower costs and make implementation more feasible, was criticized as impracticable.
    Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 July 2024
Adjective
  • The doctors informed her that the fetus was nonviable and would die, either before or shortly after delivery, the lawsuit said.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Were those embryos really nonviable?
    Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • With different work schedules, travel and other family obligations, accommodating the wishes of the one sibling has been impractical.
    Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Several once-popular home décor styles are now making spaces look outdated or impractical, according to experts.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • With a Labour government entrenched until at least 2029, that’s unlikely to happen anytime, but the big brands are also big planners, and always thinking about the success of the next generation.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 10 Apr. 2025
  • That means consumers and businesses are unlikely to see any relief on loan rates in the near term, although economists are penciling in cuts later in the year, with the majority forecasting a reduction at the Fed's June 18 meeting.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2025

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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.

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