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Recent Examples of unviable
Smaller insurance companies with local concentration may become unviable and only national behemoths will survive through rate increases.
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Phillip Molnar, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2025
This could make the project as a whole unviable, resulting in it simply never deploying.
—Eric Siegel, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
The 7pm slot is unusual but is a league contingency when other kick-off times are unavailable or unviable.
—Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
Some want to see basic protections for contraception and in-vitro fertilization treatments codified into law, or more authority given to physicians to care for women with unviable pregnancies.
—David Farré, The Tennessean, 26 Dec. 2024
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Phillip Molnar, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2025
This could make the project as a whole unviable, resulting in it simply never deploying.
—Eric Siegel, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
The 7pm slot is unusual but is a league contingency when other kick-off times are unavailable or unviable.
—Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
Some want to see basic protections for contraception and in-vitro fertilization treatments codified into law, or more authority given to physicians to care for women with unviable pregnancies.
—David Farré, The Tennessean, 26 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unviable
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Access is impossible, and information is not forthcoming in the village either: Locals do not seem to appreciate people asking questions about the tuna business, which is shrouded by a mafia-like code of silence.—
Julia Amberger, Nanni Fontana, Marzio Mian, & Nicola Scevola (Tr. Elettra Pauletto),
The Dial,
3 Apr. 2025
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As a leader, don't hesitate to challenge your team to achieve what seems impossible—beneath the initial resistance often lies the opportunity for their most fulfilling professional experiences.—
Jack Zenger,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Correa also argued that assigning national security responsibilities to the Department of Education, especially amid the Trump administration’s efforts to shut down the department, is unfeasible.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
27 Mar. 2025
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The utility found that purchasing new generators would make the plant economically unfeasible, said Blind, who was engineering director at Palisades during that time.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
22 Mar. 2025
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But Democratic members said the legislature was already open and transparent and that the prior version of the law was unworkable in the Capitol.—
Seth Klamann,
The Denver Post,
11 Mar. 2025
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But their plan to divest almost 600 stores to a grocery wholesaler with scant experience in retail was deemed unworkable by the judge.—
Peter Green,
Quartz,
23 Dec. 2024
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The document identifies a construction start date in winter 2026, but delays associated with the environmental work have made that timeline infeasible, a spokesperson for the team said.—
Jennifer Van Grove,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Mar. 2025
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Believers view deep geothermal as a climate savior; skeptics view it as a technically infeasible pipe dream.—
Brent Crane,
The New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Of these pregnancies, around 20% will be ectopic (implanted in places other than the uterus) and nonviable (not capable of developing).—
Corey Whelan,
Verywell Health,
24 Jan. 2025
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An ectopic pregnancy is an inherently nonviable one.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
16 Dec. 2024
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In regions where extending traditional power lines is costly or impractical, solar microgrids offer a viable, scalable alternative.—
ILYA Likhov,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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These trees provide good wildlife value, so their removal may be both undesirable and impractical, especially since spores can travel on the wind for quite a distance.—
Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Mar. 2025
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With a Labour government entrenched until at least 2029, that’s unlikely to happen anytime, but the big brands are also big planners, and always thinking about the success of the next generation.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
10 Apr. 2025
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That means consumers and businesses are unlikely to see any relief on loan rates in the near term, although economists are penciling in cuts later in the year, with the majority forecasting a reduction at the Fed's June 18 meeting.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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