unviable

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Recent Examples of unviable Smaller insurance companies with local concentration may become unviable and only national behemoths will survive through rate increases. Phillip Molnar, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2025 This could make the project as a whole unviable, resulting in it simply never deploying. Eric Siegel, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025 The 7pm slot is unusual but is a league contingency when other kick-off times are unavailable or unviable. Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024 Some want to see basic protections for contraception and in-vitro fertilization treatments codified into law, or more authority given to physicians to care for women with unviable pregnancies. David Farré, The Tennessean, 26 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unviable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unviable
Adjective
  • As is often the problem with biopics of all kinds — jukebox musical or not — the sheer scope of a life is impossible to capture in a mere 2 hour runtime.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • And after dark, the dealers were impossible to miss: short young men in hoodies and women in pajama pants, slinking around corners with side packs.
    Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Correa also argued that assigning national security responsibilities to the Department of Education, especially amid the Trump administration’s efforts to shut down the department, is unfeasible.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The utility found that purchasing new generators would make the plant economically unfeasible, said Blind, who was engineering director at Palisades during that time.
    Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Trump also floated the idea that the U.S. could take control of Ukrainian power plants — an idea that Ukrainian energy experts said was probably unworkable.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2025
  • But that level of pay can still be unworkable for lower-income households.
    Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • While a traffic signal remains infeasible at the intersection, staff and the applicant agreed to further traffic calming methods such as signage and striping to enhance the safety of vehicles traveling on the road.
    Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
  • But building large-scale, cutting-edge AI data centers in every country is financially and logistically infeasible given the enormous upfront costs, uneven availability of skilled labor, and high demands for land, energy, and water.
    Colin H. Kahl, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But his chairman had requested the impracticable.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The plan’s 10-year phase-in period, which was intended to lower costs and make implementation more feasible, was criticized as impracticable.
    Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 July 2024
Adjective
  • The doctors informed her that the fetus was nonviable and would die, either before or shortly after delivery, the lawsuit said.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Were those embryos really nonviable?
    Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Tapping into the endowment may be impractical for several reasons, including that some of it is legally restricted, but also because some of the unrestricted money is tied up in illiquid assets, such as in hedge funds, private equity and real estate that can’t be easily sold.
    Kara Scannell, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Blockchain might revolutionize insurance claim processing while proving impractical for emergency communications.
    Chloe Demrovsky, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • An eruption is unlikely for now Typically, gases like water and carbon dioxide can separate and form bubbles during the rise and decompression of magma.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Newsom has also asked foreign nations to exempt California from retaliatory tariffs, which experts say is unlikely.
    Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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