unmarketable

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Recent Examples of unmarketable This fragmentation resulted in an unmarketable product. Philip Brittan, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025 Despite this, menopause was still seen as an unmarketable subject. Jane Hanson, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 So this real country tune, which should have been more popular, and maybe turned into a National Rifle Association theme song, was so unmarketable that not even Yvette Noel-Schure could sell it. Armond White, National Review, 28 Feb. 2024 For all that, the movie proved almost heroically unmarketable, and decidedly un-Spielbergian in its aversion to uplift. Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023 Staff Pick: From unmarketable to ‘transcendental’ After agreeing to a record-breaking $700 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani has suddenly become the world's most famous baseball player. Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023 Oil industry representatives and Republican lawmakers warned the new financial requirements could discourage the sale of oil wells, potentially saddling struggling energy companies with unmarketable land. Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023 Not to mention unmarketable. Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 July 2022 There are two methods for valuing unmarketable assets. Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 24 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmarketable
Adjective
  • His books are frequently both excellent and unsalable.
    Gemma Sieff, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • Guston retreated to his home and studio in Woodstock, New York, returned to teaching, and spent his last, enormously productive decade churning out mad, masterful, largely unsalable paintings of people and things behaving badly.
    Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021
Adjective
  • The only noncommercial educational FM station currently broadcasting in Contra Costa County, KVHS has been licensed to Mt. Diablo Unified School District since the 1960s.
    Katie Lauer, Mercury News, 25 May 2025
  • At a time when trust in institutions is declining, access to reliable information feels harder to come by, and the need for noncommercial, high-quality early-childhood content is greater than ever, public media stands apart as a vital and unifying source.
    Mark G. Contreras, Hartford Courant, 11 May 2025
Adjective
  • Despite a seemingly uncommercial script full of ambiguous menace that constantly intimated and never confirmed that supernatural forces were in play, The Witch earned more than ten times its $4 million budget.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Never has an album this uncommercial blossomed into a structurally experimental musical and succeeded with Broadway crowds and critics, nabbing four 2024 Tony nominations, including best musical.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 22 May 2024

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“Unmarketable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmarketable. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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