as in unsupportable
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Recent Examples of unsustainable
The scheduling is unpredictable, and the jobs are unsustainable.
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Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025
During the boom in subscription streaming launches several years ago, many players launched with pricing that was designed to attract new subscribers but was unsustainable over the long term.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2025
All but one of those wins was by one score — a rate that’s widely considered unsustainable — but the gritty Giants made the playoffs as a wild-card team nonetheless.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2025
This unsustainable path for US debt growth seems likely to render the enactment of more massive green energy subsidy programs by a closely divided congress untenable for the foreseeable future.
—David Blackmon, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025
During the boom in subscription streaming launches several years ago, many players launched with pricing that was designed to attract new subscribers but was unsustainable over the long term.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2025
All but one of those wins was by one score — a rate that’s widely considered unsustainable — but the gritty Giants made the playoffs as a wild-card team nonetheless.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2025
This unsustainable path for US debt growth seems likely to render the enactment of more massive green energy subsidy programs by a closely divided congress untenable for the foreseeable future.
—David Blackmon, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsustainable
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Calling for mass deportation instead of providing undocumented immigrants some clemency for their wrongdoing in light of such a history of lawbreaking and pardons involves a double standard that is morally unsupportable.Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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The collapse of real estate has impaired local government finances so thoroughly that many now face unsupportable debt obligations of their own.Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
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The two rappers volleyed unverifiable allegations of pedophilia and domestic abuse in scathing diss tracks, but beneath that was a war about aesthetics.Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2024
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State of play: Nearly 3,500 mail-in or absentee ballots have unverifiable identification, were undeliverable or have potential flaws, including lacking a signature or security envelope, per city data as of Friday.Mike D'Onofrio, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
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One fear is therefore that the Collatz problem is one of the unprovable statements of mathematics.Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 25 July 2024
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Greenwashing involves unfounded or unprovable claims of environmental sustainability.Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
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“Unsustainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsustainable. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.
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