as in unsalable
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Recent Examples of unmarketable
Despite this, menopause was still seen as an unmarketable subject.
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Jane Hanson, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
So this real country tune, which should have been more popular, and maybe turned into a National Rifle Association theme song, was so unmarketable that not even Yvette Noel-Schure could sell it.
—Armond White, National Review, 28 Feb. 2024
For all that, the movie proved almost heroically unmarketable, and decidedly un-Spielbergian in its aversion to uplift.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
Staff Pick: From unmarketable to ‘transcendental’ After agreeing to a record-breaking $700 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani has suddenly become the world's most famous baseball player.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
Oil industry representatives and Republican lawmakers warned the new financial requirements could discourage the sale of oil wells, potentially saddling struggling energy companies with unmarketable land.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
Not to mention unmarketable.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 July 2022
There are two methods for valuing unmarketable assets.
—Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 24 June 2022
NewGem Foods developed edible films made from purees of unmarketable fruits and vegetables, serving as low-carb alternatives to bread and tortilla wraps; one film equals a full serving of fruits or vegetables.
—Deborah Wince-Smith, Forbes, 19 May 2022
Jane Hanson, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
So this real country tune, which should have been more popular, and maybe turned into a National Rifle Association theme song, was so unmarketable that not even Yvette Noel-Schure could sell it.
—Armond White, National Review, 28 Feb. 2024
For all that, the movie proved almost heroically unmarketable, and decidedly un-Spielbergian in its aversion to uplift.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
Staff Pick: From unmarketable to ‘transcendental’ After agreeing to a record-breaking $700 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani has suddenly become the world's most famous baseball player.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
Oil industry representatives and Republican lawmakers warned the new financial requirements could discourage the sale of oil wells, potentially saddling struggling energy companies with unmarketable land.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
Not to mention unmarketable.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 July 2022
There are two methods for valuing unmarketable assets.
—Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 24 June 2022
NewGem Foods developed edible films made from purees of unmarketable fruits and vegetables, serving as low-carb alternatives to bread and tortilla wraps; one film equals a full serving of fruits or vegetables.
—Deborah Wince-Smith, Forbes, 19 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmarketable
Adjective
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His books are frequently both excellent and unsalable.—
Gemma Sieff,
Harper’s Magazine ,
4 Jan. 2022
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Guston retreated to his home and studio in Woodstock, New York, returned to teaching, and spent his last, enormously productive decade churning out mad, masterful, largely unsalable paintings of people and things behaving badly.—
Susan Tallman,
The New York Review of Books,
14 Jan. 2021
Adjective
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In contrast, the fatal accident rate for general aviation (an industry term for noncommercial or smaller private planes) was 1.049 accidents per 100,000 flight hours in 2020, the most recent year for which NTSB data is available.—
Barbara Peterson,
AFAR Media,
21 Apr. 2025
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Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park In 2006, the National Park Service switched from a waitlist to a lottery for noncommercial rafting permits on the portion of the Colorado River that snakes through the Grand Canyon.—
Mindy Sink,
Denver Post,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Despite a seemingly uncommercial script full of ambiguous menace that constantly intimated and never confirmed that supernatural forces were in play, The Witch earned more than ten times its $4 million budget.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
14 Jan. 2025
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Never has an album this uncommercial blossomed into a structurally experimental musical and succeeded with Broadway crowds and critics, nabbing four 2024 Tony nominations, including best musical.—
Joe Lynch,
Billboard,
22 May 2024
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“Unmarketable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmarketable. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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