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Recent Examples of nonviable
Yes, but: The couples say Aspire Houston never told them about the failure and continued to use the nonviable embryos for IVF treatment.
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Jay R. Jordan, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024
Trump, for his part, walked away from his nonviable hotel with a $127 million payout, according to evidence in the New York attorney general’s civil fraud case.
—Zach Everson, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
One particularly harrowing account involves Samantha Casiano, a young Texan who was forced to carry her nonviable pregnancy to term and start a GoFundMe to pay for her dead baby’s funeral.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2024
Because of Texas’s ban, this mother of two who had a nonviable pregnancy had to travel out of state for routine medical care—after suing for the right to be treated in her home state.
—Alison Gemmill, Scientific American, 3 July 2024
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Jay R. Jordan, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024
Trump, for his part, walked away from his nonviable hotel with a $127 million payout, according to evidence in the New York attorney general’s civil fraud case.
—Zach Everson, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
One particularly harrowing account involves Samantha Casiano, a young Texan who was forced to carry her nonviable pregnancy to term and start a GoFundMe to pay for her dead baby’s funeral.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2024
Because of Texas’s ban, this mother of two who had a nonviable pregnancy had to travel out of state for routine medical care—after suing for the right to be treated in her home state.
—Alison Gemmill, Scientific American, 3 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonviable
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The fish experiment did convince him, and other researchers, that a human brain microbiome is not impossible.Yasemin Saplakoglu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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This naïve notion, backed by some supporters of the incoming administration, would reduce U.S. involvement in the war to a minimum, forcing Europe to provide all remaining support, a near impossible feat.Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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The legislation was approved by Australian lawmakers on Thursday with the aim of protecting the mental health of children online, despite opposition from tech companies who claim the rules are unworkable.Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 28 Nov. 2024
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The policy was designed to stop immigrants from being wrongly detained, but local leaders have told Newsweek over the past few months that the policy is unworkable, following such an influx of new arrivals to the state.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
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The bottom line is that critics and skeptics proclaim that AI sovereignty is either infeasible or improper.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Training networks with many hidden layers seemed computationally infeasible.Zachary C. Lipton, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2016
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The countless combinations of chemicals, polymers, and colors in every county and city make the sorting and recycling process financially untenable and technically unviable.Michael Shank, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2024
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In the late 1990s, the Netherlands planned to import water from the fjords of Norway, but that, too, proved unviable.Ole Ellekrog, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
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Deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants is simply unfeasible.Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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And critics of his plan say that a massive deportation of so many millions of people with very varying personal and legal situations would not only be unfeasible, but potentially cruel.Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2024
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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
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Contractual force majeure is rarely invoked and enforced to allow the nonperformance of contracts that have become either impossible or impracticable due to some catastrophic event, including natural disasters and wars.Alexander Talel, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023
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Trying to dampen political polarization in the news and on social media would be an obvious approach—although an impractical one, the two say, given how polarization has marketplace benefits in boosting audience sizes, engagement and political donations.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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Consultants have traditionally filled this gap by providing impartial assessments, yet external advisors may miss crucial insights into a company’s products, culture or internal processes, leading to high-cost, impractical recommendations.Glen Robinson, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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By way of Mike Curb, Motown also became the unlikely home of Pat Boone, the unabashedly wholesome (and religious) crooner and actor who’d become one of rock’s earliest stars thanks to his covers of songs by Little Richard and Fats Domino.David Browne, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2024
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Despite some public discussions about that prospect, that scenario—while not impossible—seems unlikely at the moment.Shane Croucher, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Nonviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonviable. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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