unviable

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Recent Examples of unviable Carrying an unviable pregnancy has to be one of the most disturbing experiences. Tara Lipinski, Allure, 15 Oct. 2024 Gas prices skyrocketed — with much of Europe’s gas coming from Russia becoming unviable — forcing countries to look for cheaper, cleaner alternatives. Sibi Arasu, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for unviable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unviable
Adjective
  • The exponential growth of data from observability and monitoring has made human analysis nearly impossible.
    Peter High, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Her latest volume, the National Book Award winner Something About Living, is full of impossible cohesions, offering this straight-on singularity of body and mind to birds, grammars, and architectures.
    Cindy Juyoung Ok June 26, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Although the idea captured public imagination and reshaped the global arms debate, SDI faced heavy criticism for being technologically unfeasible and prohibitively expensive at the time.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
  • Programs like the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) offer tax credits to private investors who finance affordable housing development, incentivizing projects that would otherwise be economically unfeasible.
    Seth Gellis, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • Advertisement But Republicans argue that Mamdani’s proposals are fundamentally unworkable.
    Nik Popli, Time, 25 June 2025
  • The whole idea of a system of space lasers shooting down nuclear missiles lobbed at us is, in addition to being prohibitively expensive, unworkable from a physics perspective.
    Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • Forward-looking businesses view quantum as a strategic investment to solve problems that were previously infeasible, from ultra-efficient supply chain logistics to advanced risk modeling in finance.
    Yuval Boger, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
  • Skeptics may argue that such an arrangement is infeasible with a Trump administration that appears to disavow the importance of the United States’ alliances.
    ELY RATNER, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 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
  • Chander-Scott was eventually freed after an autopsy determined that the fetus was nonviable and stillborn.
    Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
  • But if a planning pause was also directed, that could cause offensive options to become stale and therefore nonviable.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Adding more throughput is unwieldy and impractical.
    Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • Maison Irem Pearl Bow Shoe Charms While swapping standard nylon laces for pearl strands might be an impractical venture, clipping on two little pearl bows at your sneakers’ centers is an effortless maneuver that will pay dividends in sheer beauty.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 29 May 2025
Adjective
  • De-Lin, a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health, saw some patients who, at 20 weeks of pregnancy, learned that their fetuses had severe anomalies and were unlikely to survive.
    Chantelle Lee, Time, 24 June 2025
  • Households below those thresholds may qualify for the full tax benefit, but are unlikely to buy an expensive enough car to do so, economists said.
    Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 24 June 2025

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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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