viability

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Recent Examples of viability The 2024 awards season became a watershed moment for horror, showcasing the genre’s viability. Robert Lang, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2025 But the size of the gray market may be fundamentally at odds with its viability. Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025 Some of these Democrats must reassess their own potential viability, which their egos appear to have inflated. Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 23 Dec. 2025 The tension between street ethics and commercial viability has surfaced repeatedly throughout hip-hop’s history. Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for viability
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Noun
  • Although pilots in France, Italy, and the US have shown strong feasibility, challenges still exist.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Critics raised questions about the feasibility of some of his proposals, including free bus services and city-run grocery stores, as well as about his previous comments on Israel.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • At a conference in 1969, when other physicists were debating the very existence of gravitational waves, Weber presented evidence supporting their direct detection.
    Big Think, Big Think, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Sammy may have talked about being stuck between Black and white, between Christian and Jewish, but his existence joined one side to the other, not to mention pointing beyond a past of separation and stereotype.
    Questlove, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • As oblivion approached, with all its attendant possibilities of panic or bitterness, Bowie summoned the generosity to evoke the ordeal of one prematurely dying man while also thinking and creating at the no less vast scale of life itself.
    Armin Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Thursday’s report is not the first time the possibility of Trump pardoning Combs has been publicly discussed.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Now, though, leading to Saturday’s kickoff, survival has become the primary objective.
    Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Those differences could be key to the survival of the species, as well as show how other animals and humans could evolve in the future.
    Devika Rao, TheWeek, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • And where there is injustice and frustration, the potentialities for violence are greater.
    NBC news, NBC news, 12 Oct. 2025
  • On foot, there are no boundaries in the land, no divides, nothing but the past and the potentiality of the future.
    Michael McColly, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Courts have established a standard referred to as objective reasonableness when considering whether a use of force was justified, relying heavily on the perspective of the specific officer in that specific scenario.
    Claudia Lauer, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Objective reasonableness, meanwhile, asks whether a hypothetical reasonable person would have also used force given the same circumstances.
    Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Had one of his schools swiped a Big Ten athlete under contract (with tampering as the mechanism), Sankey’s credibility on the issue would have been severely undercut and his relationship with Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti might have been damaged.
    Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Diplomacy is preferable, but diplomacy without credibility is meaningless.
    Jason D. Greenblatt, semafor.com, 9 Jan. 2026

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“Viability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/viability. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.

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