unmanageable
adjective
un·man·age·able
ˌən-ˈma-ni-jə-bəl 
: not manageable : difficult or impossible to control or manage
unmanageable hair
an almost unmanageable amount of data
The prisoner became unmanageable.
an unmanageable temper
an unmanageable number of students for one teacher
an unmanageable amount of debt
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Examples of unmanageable in a Sentence
an unmanageable dog who had to be returned to the pound
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Workers said that the pressure of daily visitor flows — particularly around the Mona Lisa — had become unmanageable and that promised reforms were arriving too slowly.
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Dallas Morning News, 24 Feb. 2026
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—ABC News, 21 Feb. 2026
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Dallas Morning News, 24 Feb. 2026
The strikers complained of unmanageable workloads and accused the hospitals of trying to chip away at health benefits.
—ABC News, 21 Feb. 2026
Frost has turned to Reddit to help identify specific document numbers to review, after keyword searches yielded an unmanageable number of results.
—Philip Wang, Time, 20 Feb. 2026
Nurses countered that top hospital executives make millions of dollars a year while saddling nurses with unmanageable workloads.
—Philip Marcelo, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for unmanageable
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“Unmanageable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unmanageable. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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