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Recent Examples of nonviable
One particularly harrowing account involves Samantha Casiano, a young Texan who was forced to carry her nonviable pregnancy to term and start a GoFundMe to pay for her dead baby’s funeral.
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Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2024
Because of Texas’s ban, this mother of two who had a nonviable pregnancy had to travel out of state for routine medical care—after suing for the right to be treated in her home state.
—Alison Gemmill, Scientific American, 3 July 2024
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
Listen to this article A California fertility clinic is facing allegations from couples who claim they were given nonviable embryos for their in-vitro fertilization procedures.
—Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2024
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Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2024
Because of Texas’s ban, this mother of two who had a nonviable pregnancy had to travel out of state for routine medical care—after suing for the right to be treated in her home state.
—Alison Gemmill, Scientific American, 3 July 2024
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
Listen to this article A California fertility clinic is facing allegations from couples who claim they were given nonviable embryos for their in-vitro fertilization procedures.
—Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonviable
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Travel conditions in some areas were expected to be difficult if not impossible.Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2024
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Some worry that this will put an impossible burden on public welfare and health care systems and on younger generations who will have to care for a huge population of older people.Vegard Skirbekk, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
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Chandra Wallace:So as companies are starting to implement this and starting to discover maybe how unworkable some of these rules might be, is 90 days enough time to give taxpayers to comment on 600 pages of rules?Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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The bread debacle can seem like a straw man designed to make the whole system look pointless and unworkable.Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
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Instead of clinging to an infeasible definition of victory, Washington must grapple with the grim reality of the war and come to terms with a more plausible outcome.Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
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After all, having 200,000 immortal or self-replicating monkeys working consistently until the end of the universe is just as infeasible as having infinite time to begin with.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2024
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In the late 1990s, the Netherlands planned to import water from the fjords of Norway, but that, too, proved unviable.Ole Ellekrog, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
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The couple soon found that while there was demand for eggs, the high cost of chicken feed was making the egg business unviable.Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
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The reality is that paying the full social cost of carbon seems unfeasible, but mounting evidence shows that the costs of inaction are even higher.Nils Rokke, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
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Doing so, however, would demand an unfeasible commitment of money and labor.Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 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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Outsourcing vendor management may also be impractical, as most services are designed and priced for large enterprises.Paul Blough, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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That same year, following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein ordered an impractical (and unsuccessful) effort to quickly build a nuclear weapon.Uri Friedman, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
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The plaintiffs are the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians, two physicians and the four women testifying this week, who learned while pregnant that their fetuses were unlikely to survive.Aria Bendix, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Gunmen from the Manfredi and Bevilaqua outfits, led by weed store employee and unlikely sharpshooter Grace, take out the rest of the Triads.Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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“Nonviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonviable. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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