as in unsupportable
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Recent Examples of unsustainable
More than a third of the nation's air traffic control systems are unsustainable, according to an FAA assessment from 2023, and some are starting to fail.
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Joel Rose, NPR, 6 June 2025
That old man was Trump—who had just been hospitalized with COVID-19, but was pretending that everything was fine—and yet the column was about America’s gerontocracy as a whole, and what Smith suggested was an unsustainable media omertà around it.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
And even that modest slugging number has been boosted by an unsustainable batting average (.526) on balls in play for Alvarez against fastballs.
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 22 May 2025
The current fiscal trajectory in the US is unsustainable, and the debt service burden has grown large enough to squeeze out other spending.
—Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
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Joel Rose, NPR, 6 June 2025
That old man was Trump—who had just been hospitalized with COVID-19, but was pretending that everything was fine—and yet the column was about America’s gerontocracy as a whole, and what Smith suggested was an unsustainable media omertà around it.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
And even that modest slugging number has been boosted by an unsustainable batting average (.526) on balls in play for Alvarez against fastballs.
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 22 May 2025
The current fiscal trajectory in the US is unsustainable, and the debt service burden has grown large enough to squeeze out other spending.
—Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsustainable
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Maryland families, already feeling the strain of rising utility bills and elevated vehicle prices, may have just dodged another expensive and unsupportable policy created by regulators nearly 3,000 miles away.—
Trent M. Kittleman,
Baltimore Sun,
26 May 2025
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Someone in this case simply made up a novel but completely unsupportable theory.—
Peter J Reilly,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Grocery Outlet's use of vague and unverifiable 'elsewhere' prices deprived consumers of the ability to make informed purchasing decisions and unfairly competed with other businesses.—
Emma Marsden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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Recruiting departments are chaotic because of thousands of highlight tapes, unverifiable claims, and more.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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But skeptics say that without the original document, the story is unprovable.—
Virginia Brown,
Charlotte Observer,
14 May 2025
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One fear is therefore that the Collatz problem is one of the unprovable statements of mathematics.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
25 July 2024
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“Unsustainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsustainable. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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