as in unsupportable
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Recent Examples of unsustainable
Even to the most casual observer, this explosion of debt is unsustainable.
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Mike Patton, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
In the long run, Maguire argues that is unsustainable.
—Mark Critchley, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
But at the same time, setting a lofty, unsustainable, or otherwise unrealistic goal can set you up for failure right out of the gate.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 22 Jan. 2025
The pressing problems of climate change, democratic backsliding, economic inequality, and unsustainable levels of sovereign debt will not be solved by strengthening U.S. power to the detriment of the broader world.
—Michael Brenes, Foreign Affairs, 28 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for unsustainable 
Mike Patton, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
In the long run, Maguire argues that is unsustainable.
—Mark Critchley, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
But at the same time, setting a lofty, unsustainable, or otherwise unrealistic goal can set you up for failure right out of the gate.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 22 Jan. 2025
The pressing problems of climate change, democratic backsliding, economic inequality, and unsustainable levels of sovereign debt will not be solved by strengthening U.S. power to the detriment of the broader world.
—Michael Brenes, Foreign Affairs, 28 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for unsustainable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsustainable
Adjective
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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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No one fact-checking the government when unverifiable and damaging comments are made by a government official.—
Alex Malm,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Falsehoods that reveal something about the speaker may have enough value to keep, so long as they are rebutted, but detail that is truly unverifiable, or clearly and unfixably specious, will typically be cut: deciding what not to publish can be just as important as deciding what to keep in.—
Fergus McIntosh,
The New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2025
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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 21 Feb. 2025.
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