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Recent Examples of unviable
The losses and damages from extreme weather events are mounting to the point that major reinsurers now warn that entire economic models may become unviable if climate risks continue to rise unchecked.
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Sir David King, Time, 15 Dec. 2025
Israeli leaders have reacted furiously, taking steps to render any such entity unviable.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
That can make a new business concept unviable.
—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
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Sir David King, Time, 15 Dec. 2025
Israeli leaders have reacted furiously, taking steps to render any such entity unviable.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
That can make a new business concept unviable.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unviable
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Many of Florida’s buildings face aging materials, punishing weather, and deferred maintenance that quietly compound until conditions become impossible to ignore and threaten residents’ safety.—
Keegan A. Berry,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
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The trustworthiness of nearly every website, inbox, and bank account rests on the assumption that these two problems are impossible to solve.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Apr. 2026
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Experts warn that once a coal plant is brought back online, shutting it down could be politically unfeasible, raising fears of soaring carbon emissions.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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Regrettably, the end result was a set of new regulations that were not thoroughly vetted and, as a result, made compliance economically unfeasible.—
Jeff Montejano,
Oc Register,
15 Mar. 2026
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California’s leaders have, at long last, passed legislation free of the requirements that rendered previous bills unworkable.—
Rogé Karma,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2026
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Ever since the Canucks dealt Quinn Hughes, the environment in Vancouver has become completely unworkable.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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Mahan’s housing plans include greater fee transparency and the reduction or deferral of development fees, which have been instrumental in making projects infeasible.—
Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2026
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Trying to fix the retirement program is infeasible.—
Ramesh Ponnuru,
Washington Post,
25 Feb. 2026
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In court filings, the agency argued that changing testing protocols was unnecessary and impracticable.—
Christopher Osher,
ProPublica,
29 Jan. 2026
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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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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
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But the brief, costly, impractical service still became one of the most romanticized episodes in American history—a legacy wildly disproportionate to its lifespan.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 Apr. 2026
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The creator notes the concept suits cabins, RVs, and off-grid structures particularly well — anywhere grid ties are impractical or expensive.—
Munis Raza,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Mar. 2026
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Another surgery swapped out her breast implants to erase her shoulder pain in 2022, Dishell said, but doctors warned her then that her other pain was unlikely to improve.—
Brett Kelman,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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But McKinnon, who runs the $14 billion digital identity management company Okta, adds that CEOs are unlikely to get the answer from their in-house IT experts.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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