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Recent Examples of unviable
The couple soon found that while there was demand for eggs, the high cost of chicken feed was making the egg business unviable.
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Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
Advertisements in swing states such as Arizona feature the testimonials of women with unviable pregnancies who could not get timely medical care until their health worsened because of doctors’ fears of running afoul of state laws.
—Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Inconsistency and uncertainty could undercut your hard work, alienate your staff and ultimately render your vision performative and unviable.
—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
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Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
Advertisements in swing states such as Arizona feature the testimonials of women with unviable pregnancies who could not get timely medical care until their health worsened because of doctors’ fears of running afoul of state laws.
—Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Inconsistency and uncertainty could undercut your hard work, alienate your staff and ultimately render your vision performative and unviable.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unviable
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In fact, doing that kind of data cleansing lift is impossible for some companies.Kathleen Hurley, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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Trump and Musk have said DOGE would find $2 trillion in spending cuts, a task budget experts have said is impossible without touching entitlement benefits like Social Security and Medicare and a $1.7 trillion discretionary budget.The National Desk, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2025
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Equally unfeasible would be for Dallas to convince Bill Belichick to bolt from the University of North Carolina for another NFL head coaching opportunity.Kambui Bomani, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Should nations use the funding to pursue illogical or unfeasible development projects related to One Belt, One Road, Chinese investments will suffer as debtors struggle to pay back loans.Jacob Stokes, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2015
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Insurers said the new requirements, as proposed, would be unworkable and amount to a costly mandate.Maya Goldman, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
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But that level of pay can still be unworkable for lower-income households.Renata Daou, Hartford Courant, 16 Dec. 2024
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There is such a jumble of different paths that can lead to a decision that retracing the machine’s steps is basically infeasible.Kenneth Neil Cukier, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
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With each type of product having a different chemical makeup, recycling is largely infeasible, in spite of the obscenely cynical marketing campaigns to the contrary by producers.Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 6 Dec. 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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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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For instance, unused network segments can be powered down temporarily to save energy, a task that would be impractical to manage manually across thousands of network sites.Robert Backhouse, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Experts dismiss an analogous design for the U.S. as impractical—Israel's defenses are vastly different to the U.S. for several reasons, not least the size of the country and who is doing the targeting.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
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But, the debate on water fluoridation is unlikely to recede any time soon.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 7 Jan. 2025
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If any new buildings are constructed on the land, they must be done in a way that is respectful of the landscape and of the historic architecture, There should be little sense that anything has been built at all, and in Palm Beach, that’s unlikely.Jeff Kleinman, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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