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Recent Examples of unviable
Should mission operators encounter any delays and need to postpone the launch for another day, NASA is able to reset SLS for up to four attempts between April 1-6, with another window opening April 30 should the first week of the month become unviable.
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Josh Dinner, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
Discard any older, unviable seeds that have floated to the top of the water.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 12 Mar. 2026
The losses and damages from extreme weather events are mounting to the point that major reinsurers now warn that entire economic models may become unviable if climate risks continue to rise unchecked.
—Sir David King, Time, 15 Dec. 2025
Israeli leaders have reacted furiously, taking steps to render any such entity unviable.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
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Josh Dinner, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
Discard any older, unviable seeds that have floated to the top of the water.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 12 Mar. 2026
The losses and damages from extreme weather events are mounting to the point that major reinsurers now warn that entire economic models may become unviable if climate risks continue to rise unchecked.
—Sir David King, Time, 15 Dec. 2025
Israeli leaders have reacted furiously, taking steps to render any such entity unviable.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unviable
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Jalen Brunson knows any variation of offensive plays featuring both him and All-Star teammate Karl-Anthony Towns can be difficult, nearly impossible for opposing defenses to guard.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Thank you to the public servants wrestling with impossible decisions.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
10 Apr. 2026
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Experts warn that once a coal plant is brought back online, shutting it down could be politically unfeasible, raising fears of soaring carbon emissions.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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Regrettably, the end result was a set of new regulations that were not thoroughly vetted and, as a result, made compliance economically unfeasible.—
Jeff Montejano,
Oc Register,
15 Mar. 2026
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The alternatives Disney now points to are, for my family, technically and medically unworkable and, in many cases, dangerous.—
Kelsey Maurine Brickl,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2026
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California’s leaders have, at long last, passed legislation free of the requirements that rendered previous bills unworkable.—
Rogé Karma,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2026
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Engineers judged that version infeasible.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Mahan’s housing plans include greater fee transparency and the reduction or deferral of development fees, which have been instrumental in making projects infeasible.—
Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2026
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In court filings, the agency argued that changing testing protocols was unnecessary and impracticable.—
Christopher Osher,
ProPublica,
29 Jan. 2026
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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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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
Adjective
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While some sites provide after-school for a fee, the cost of extended hours can be so high, and the schedule so impractical, that some parents are forced to turn down the city’s offer of free care.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
9 Apr. 2026
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The league’s argument is that an ABS buffer zone would be impractical.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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An evolving cross-cultural icon For Nakamachi, seeing how fortune cookies evolved into an unlikely cultural icon in a foreign land is inspiring.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
10 Apr. 2026
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The magazine’s second editor was nonetheless a Gernsback ally, the unlikely electrical engineer and former editor of Scientific American Thomas O’Connor Sloane.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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