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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unviable
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And after dark, the dealers were impossible to miss: short young men in hoodies and women in pajama pants, slinking around corners with side packs.—
Jason Motlagh,
Rolling Stone,
27 Apr. 2025
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As is often the problem with biopics of all kinds — jukebox musical or not — the sheer scope of a life is impossible to capture in a mere 2 hour runtime.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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Trump also floated the idea that the U.S. could take control of Ukrainian power plants — an idea that Ukrainian energy experts said was probably unworkable.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
20 Mar. 2025
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But that level of pay can still be unworkable for lower-income households.—
Jenna Carlesso,
Hartford Courant,
4 Mar. 2025
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But as happened in the Cold War, once the Soviet Union began to reach nuclear parity with the United States, such an objective would likely prove difficult if not infeasible.—
ANDREW S. LIM,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Quantum internet is a next-generation network that uses the power of physics to send data in a way that’s ultra-secure and computationally infeasible to hack.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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But his chairman had requested the impracticable.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
10 Feb. 2025
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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
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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
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Were those embryos really nonviable?—
Jamie Ducharme,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
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Aguilar, the chair of the House Democratic Caucus, downplayed impeachment talk as impractical to reporters Tuesday.—
Emily Hallas,
The Washington Examiner,
29 Apr. 2025
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While extended vacations may be impractical during economic downturns, the core idea remains relevant: managers must champion employee well-being to sustain performance.—
Anjali Chaudhry,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Many experts say that far more ambitious objective is unlikely to be achieved without cutting major federal programs like Social Security and Medicare, which President Trump has vowed not to touch.—
Alain Sherter,
CBS News,
25 Apr. 2025
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Matt Shaw was 1-for-13 in his first four games at Iowa, so the rookie who started in Japan is unlikely to return from Des Moines any time soon.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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