How to Use nonviable in a Sentence
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In the past, Jackie and Shadow have lost eggs that have been nonviable, and some have been eaten by ravens.
— Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024 -
The risk has been discussed for years: China has too much debt and has used it to finance nonviable projects.
— James MacKintosh, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2017 -
The idea is that female plants will latch onto it and produce nonviable seeds.
— New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021 -
The patient was forced to go through a painful, hours-long labor to deliver a nonviable fetus, with heavy loss of blood.
— Harris Meyer, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2022 -
Both the autopsy and expert testimony show that the fetus died while in the womb and was nonviable.
— Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 12 Jan. 2024 -
The law makes no exceptions for nonviable pregnancies in which the fetus has no chance of survival.
— New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021 -
France and Britain have been at odds in recent months, as the British government has renewed its calls to make the Channel crossing between the two countries nonviable.
— Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2020 -
The hospital has not disposed of any nonviable embryos, Liu said.
— Staff, cleveland.com, 27 Mar. 2018 -
That’s when temperatures in the freezer rose, leaving the eggs and embryos nonviable.
— John Caniglia, cleveland, 2 Apr. 2021 -
Forcing a woman to carry to term a nonviable fetus—a fetus or baby that will not survive—is a heinous form of torture.
— Erin Coulehan, Glamour, 4 May 2022 -
Since 2006, the procedure has been permitted in Colombia in cases of rape, nonviable pregnancy and when the life or health of the mother was in danger.
— Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2022 -
The suit also argues that patients with nonviable pregnancies that pose risks to patients' health are unable to get care in North Dakota and have to travel out of state.
— Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 23 Jan. 2024 -
Even if the patient is on life support and a decision is made to pull the plug, about 30 percent of the time the organs become nonviable as blood pressure drops and circulation grinds to a halt.
— Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 4 May 2020 -
Miller had to travel to Colorado to get a selective fetal reduction of the nonviable fetus.
— Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2023 -
Samantha Casiano Casiano said she was forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term only to watch her baby die four hours after giving birth.
— Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 19 July 2023 -
Abortions are also permitted when the long-term health and life of the mother are at risk and for abnormalities that render the fetus nonviable.
— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022 -
Marketers need to be prepared to shift their focus if one or more of their key platforms shift in such a way that marketing on it becomes nonviable for a short or long period of time.
— Expert Panel®, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023 -
The Texas law makes no exception for nonviable pregnancies.
— Sarah Varney, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023 -
But the drug is also used as a standard treatment during miscarriages to help speed the process of expelling nonviable tissue, as an alternative to surgery.
— Robert Langreth and Aziza Kasumov, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018 -
Fetal conditions, like a nonviable twin that threatens the health of its sibling, can also imperil the mother.
— Stephanie Sinclair Jaime Lowe, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2022 -
As land prices and wine prices become locked in a vicious circle, each forcing the other higher and higher, even purchasing wine becomes nonviable for many.
— Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018 -
However, two doctors must agree that the fetus is nonviable, adding a significant burden to the patient.
— Tori Otten, The New Republic, 11 May 2023 -
Some believe embryos – even if frozen, in a test tube, and nonviable unless implanted – should be protected as human.
— Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2024 -
And Lacteol Fort, made from nonviable cells from L. acidophilus, is used to treat irritable bowel syndrome.
— Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021 -
For more than an hour, Detective Nick Carney interviewed Watts, 33, about the details of that morning and the whereabouts of the nearly 22-week-old fetus that was declared nonviable two days earlier.
— Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023 -
The governor signed a new bill in April that provides exemptions for ectopic and other nonviable pregnancies and allows abortions if a woman’s life is at risk.
— Currie Engel, Women's Health, 22 June 2023 -
Another change: Only members of nonviable groups will be allowed to realign.
— NBC News, 3 Feb. 2020 -
The aim is to make apps such as TikTok nonviable by blocking them from collecting money from US advertisers or being promoted on app stores.
— WIRED, 2 Feb. 2023 -
The state’s laws came under scrutiny in 2022 when a woman carrying a nonviable fetus was forced to seek medical care outside Missouri.
— Cy Neff, USA TODAY, 14 June 2024 -
More than a dozen embryos were already nonviable when the lab, Ovation Fertility, implanted them into the would-be mothers, said the lawsuit, which accuses the lab of negligence.
— Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024
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