as in uncontrollable
given to resisting control or discipline by others
an unmanageable dog who had to be returned to the pound
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Recent Examples of unmanageable
Proposition 4 will shift us from disaster response to disaster prevention before the damage becomes too costly and unmanageable — preventing wildfires, providing safe drinking water for everyone, and protecting our forests, beaches and coasts.
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Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2024
Additionally, the soaring prices of childcare have become nearly unmanageable for many families, creating additional financial strain and stress.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Otherwise, the zoo of applications will grow to an unmanageable cost factor with unfathomable risk.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Unionized housekeepers are striking to restore automatic daily room cleanings at major hotel chains, saying they have been saddled with unmanageable workloads or, in many cases, fewer hours and declines in income.
—Josh Feldman, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2024
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Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2024
Additionally, the soaring prices of childcare have become nearly unmanageable for many families, creating additional financial strain and stress.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Otherwise, the zoo of applications will grow to an unmanageable cost factor with unfathomable risk.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Unionized housekeepers are striking to restore automatic daily room cleanings at major hotel chains, saying they have been saddled with unmanageable workloads or, in many cases, fewer hours and declines in income.
—Josh Feldman, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2024
See all Example Sentences for unmanageable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmanageable
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The other two children suffered similar abuses and suffered from a range of behavioral issues, including panic, fearfulness, injury, difficulty focusing, night terrors, and uncontrollable crying, the families allege.Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Fear is what fuels any widespread panic, feeding off collective hysteria and growing into an uncontrollable monster.Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 18 Oct. 2024
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The Fed’s preferred inflation measure — the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index — is due Friday and could similarly show stubborn price pressures.Bryan Mena, CNN, 18 Dec. 2024
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While the overall economic picture is starting to look better, stubborn inflation and the prospect of new tariffs when President-elect Donald Trump takes office seem to give mid-market leaders pause.Megan Poinski, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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What began as a series of hopeful pro-democracy protests in Syria in 2011 ballooned into a devastating and intractable conflict that contributed to one of the most severe refugee crises since World War II.Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2024
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In 2007, Nelson Mandela founded the Elders, an NGO that sought to find solutions to the world’s most intractable clashes.Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
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Style: Rail-thin in sunglasses, black suit and unruly pompadour; Dylan accouterments include acoustic guitar, harmonica and ever-present cigarette.Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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Nature and — most importantly — unruly, winding vegetative shapes, feature prominently in Monument Valley 3.Lewis Gordon, The Verge, 9 Dec. 2024
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In its editorial, Automotive News said Stellantis might be ungovernable but was certainly in need of a major overhaul.Neil Winton, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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But even Jewish-Jewish coalitions have proved ungovernable.Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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An at least 200-year-old celebration of French and Mediterranean cuisine, macarons are renowned as the ‘impossible dessert,’ a result of the notoriously involved and difficult baking process.Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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The manual entry of damage to structures like bridges used to be very expensive and time-consuming, a complex process made even more difficult by the fact that data entry and analysis are performed by both the agency’s own staff and external companies.Stephanie Glenk, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Crystal tells a tale of guest hosting The Tonight Show for Johnny Carson and having a recalcitrant guest in Mr. Cosell, despite the fact the two were friends.Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
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Nanny McPhee, a strict disciplinarian, clad in black, arrives uninvited to rid the recalcitrant children of their worst habits.Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 29 Nov. 2024
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Over the summer, a wayward cluster of metallic balloons triggered a widespread power outage in Orleans Parish after coming into contact with a power line.Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024
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The magnetic field stamps out the flickers by pushing any wayward pairs to align with the overall gyre.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Unmanageable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmanageable. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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