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Recent Examples of unviable
That can make a new business concept unviable.
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Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Primaries should theoretically weed out unviable candidates, but that didn’t happen last time.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
That created uncertainty about whether some plans would be financially unviable, the company said.
—Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
One former Magma Mine manager has some doubts After a near 25-year struggle to obtain Oak Flat for its copper, Resolution may find the location unviable, says one mining manager who knows the land and what lies beneath it well.
—Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Primaries should theoretically weed out unviable candidates, but that didn’t happen last time.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
That created uncertainty about whether some plans would be financially unviable, the company said.
—Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
One former Magma Mine manager has some doubts After a near 25-year struggle to obtain Oak Flat for its copper, Resolution may find the location unviable, says one mining manager who knows the land and what lies beneath it well.
—Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unviable
Adjective
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When the sun moves away from the node, the season ends, and eclipses become impossible again.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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Word of mouth slowly led to the first Superblast being impossible to find after its introduction in 2022, and consumer appetite was fed with slight updates and greater stock on the Superblast 2 two years later.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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However, semiconductor analysts broadly agree with Cheng’s assessment that Washington’s most ambitious onshoring plans are unfeasible, citing the difficulties of relocating such an advanced supply chain.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
10 Feb. 2026
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DeForest officials deemed a project unfeasible due to a large land annexation requirement.—
Ricardo Torres,
jsonline.com,
6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Other Republicans have rejected several Democratic requests as unrealistic or unworkable.—
Toluse Olorunnipa,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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The Justice Department argued in a reply filed Sunday that the stay should remain in place, calling the injunction unworkable and overly broad.—
Steve Karnowski,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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And, in the hands of an experienced journalist, these data tools can help with projects that would have been infeasible even in the heyday of the business.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
23 Dec. 2025
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Before the City Council approved the changes on Tuesday, the only path forward for incompatible projects was through a hardship waiver that showed rehabilitation was technically, structurally or economically infeasible.—
Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
4 Dec. 2025
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Sanders’ proclamations state that conducting an election to meet that requirement was both impracticable and unduly burdensome, without further explaining her reasoning.—
John Lynch,
Arkansas Online,
22 Oct. 2025
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One is a single state with equal rights for Palestinians and Jews, which would be wonderful but is simply impracticable given attitudes on both sides.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
9 Oct. 2025
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The vet team amputated nonviable tissue from the tegu's tongue.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
30 Jan. 2026
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Foreclosure would become nonviable as a means of tax collection — with no readily apparent alternative means for timely collection of the delinquent revenue.—
Todd Spangler,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Along with complaints about the building’s size, the Geffen Galleries’ heavy use of concrete had been criticized as an impractical choice for hanging art.—
Malia Mendez,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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Erdoğan’s speeches are full of practical advice about how to destroy the left, such as calling progressives lazy, impractical alcoholics funded by globalist lobbies and contrasting the efficiency of an imperial president with the messiness of parliamentary policymaking.—
Kaya Genç,
The Dial,
3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The series follows a teenage boy who forms an unlikely alliance with the Fairy Queen of Celtic lore to search for malevolent mythical creatures from around the world, among them the Yeti, Baba Yaga and a Lady Dracula — not to destroy them, but to save them from impending doom.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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Costco, by contrast, is betting that visible, if measured, support for diversity can coexist with—and even underpin—a booming business, turning the warehouse club into an unlikely bellwether for how far corporate America is willing to go in defying the president’s DEI directive.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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