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Recent Examples of unviable
Inconsistency and uncertainty could undercut your hard work, alienate your staff and ultimately render your vision performative and unviable.
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Dylan Taylor, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
However, high interest rates make this upfront capital more expensive to access, thus making projects cost more or even become financially unviable.
—Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
The companies also need to make a profit off their enhanced fruits — but the higher prices might make those alternatives commercially unviable.
—Charlotte Lytton, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024
Ventures employing it generated more revenues than those that didn’t and were also more likely to pivot away from unviable ideas, a necessity for early-stage firms.
—Harvard Business Review, 1 July 2024
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Dylan Taylor, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
However, high interest rates make this upfront capital more expensive to access, thus making projects cost more or even become financially unviable.
—Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
The companies also need to make a profit off their enhanced fruits — but the higher prices might make those alternatives commercially unviable.
—Charlotte Lytton, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024
Ventures employing it generated more revenues than those that didn’t and were also more likely to pivot away from unviable ideas, a necessity for early-stage firms.
—Harvard Business Review, 1 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unviable
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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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Installing hundreds of towers to serve a sparse population, resulting in less than 1% utilization of the network's capacity, is economically unfeasible.Bejoy Pankajakshan, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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Deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants is simply unfeasible.Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 29 Nov. 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 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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The ban went into effect Wednesday and affects not just women who want to terminate viable pregnancies because of personal choice, but also nonviable pregnancies for women who want to have babies.Stephany Matat, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2024
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Four women who are suing the state of Idaho after they were denied abortions will testify starting Tuesday about their experiences traveling out of state to end nonviable pregnancies.Aria Bendix, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
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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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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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