unsustainable

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Recent Examples of unsustainable MeVa's Administrator Noah Berger said the current system is unsustainable. Penny Kmitt, CBS News, 1 July 2026 This shift is due to fans' speculative team predictions often proving wrong, the challenges of last-minute travel, previously unsustainable price levels, and casual fans' reduced interest in spontaneous knockout games. Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Recent attacks on the Dubna facility and on a major Moscow oil refinery typify distinct parts of the Ukrainian strategy to make the war unsustainable for the Russian dictator. Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 30 June 2026 Oil revenues, the president argues, should reduce pressure for unsustainable mining practices. Panorama Media Ltd, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for unsustainable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsustainable
Adjective
  • Currah’s opinion piece is wrong on the facts, the law, and the science, and reaches unsupportable conclusions.
    Paisley Currah, The New York Review of Books, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The venerable but troubled outlet has been for sale since its previous owners ran up unsupportable debts and were removed in 2023.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 24 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Even if my archive was unverifiable or incongruous, the hazy, contradictory landscape of Goodman’s life was the truth of her existence.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • But MetroCard and cash payments were unverifiable for the teams, which are equipped with handheld readers that can ascertain whether an OMNY card, bank card or smartphone has recently been used to pay a fare.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Without that data, the patterns become invisible — or at least, unprovable.
    Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • The meat of the documentary is the different SNL presidents talking about their individual impressions, their origins and their causally unprovable impacts on the perception of those presidents.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026

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“Unsustainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsustainable. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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