as in uncontrollable
given to resisting control or discipline by others
an unmanageable dog who had to be returned to the pound
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Recent Examples of unmanageable
Over the three months since Storen’s dragnet, 88 had pleaded guilty, helping both to build the government’s case and to thin the unmanageable number of defendants to 28.
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Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
Unionized housekeepers, however, have waged a fierce fight to restore automatic daily room cleaning at major hotel chains, saying they have been saddled with unmanageable workloads, or in many cases, fewer hours and a decline in income.
—Alexandra Olson, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Sep. 2024
Staff are too overwhelmed to take proper time off and speak up about their unmanageable workloads, underscoring the pressing need for organizations to create environments that promote authenticity and psychological safety.
—Smriti Joshi, Fortune, 22 July 2024
Mitas, who specializes in overtourism, says news coverage often describes the phenomenon as a single, unmanageable issue.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 12 Aug. 2024
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Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
Unionized housekeepers, however, have waged a fierce fight to restore automatic daily room cleaning at major hotel chains, saying they have been saddled with unmanageable workloads, or in many cases, fewer hours and a decline in income.
—Alexandra Olson, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Sep. 2024
Staff are too overwhelmed to take proper time off and speak up about their unmanageable workloads, underscoring the pressing need for organizations to create environments that promote authenticity and psychological safety.
—Smriti Joshi, Fortune, 22 July 2024
Mitas, who specializes in overtourism, says news coverage often describes the phenomenon as a single, unmanageable issue.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 12 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmanageable
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In the not-too-distant past, any car with 824 hp at its rear wheels would have been a wild ride at best, uncontrollable at worst.Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2024
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Societies becoming trapped in these incredibly powerful but ultimately uncontrollable information networks?Sean Illing, Vox, 22 Sep. 2024
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McCaffrey hadn’t played since the Super Bowl in Las Vegas while battling a stubborn case of Achilles tendinitis.Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Attempting to model the interaction between a protein with thousands of atoms and a drug-like molecule with hundreds of atoms quickly becomes intractable, exceeding the computing power of even the most advanced computing clouds.Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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While some political theorists blame alarmist and misleading rhetoric for this dilemma, others opine that the ultimate culprit that threatens American democracy is the electorate’s seemingly intractable polarization.Blake D. Morant, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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In the second incident, which took place after 6 p.m., multiple officers were summoned to a section of the stadium where three allegedly unruly fans were ejected but refused to exit, the body camera video shows.Dennis Romero, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Their personas seem derived from the unruly and edgy rockstars of the past.Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 4 Nov. 2024
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But even Jewish-Jewish coalitions have proved ungovernable.Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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The many examples of personal incompetence in rich industrial democracies generated the thesis that such countries had become ungovernable.Harold James, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
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The melodic lines, particularly for brass, are very difficult to navigate.Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Trump’s reelection augurs two trends in U.S. foreign policy that will be difficult to reverse.Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
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To better prepare an incoming President replacing a recalcitrant one, Republicans and Democrats in Congress in 2022 passed the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act.Brian Bennett, TIME, 2 Nov. 2024
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Just as most sectors of white-collar management have proved more recalcitrant to de-skilling than manual labor, so too the intellectual work of the art historian and critic has taken somewhat longer to de-skill than its avant-garde counterparts.15 But for Buchloh, that moment has come.Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
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No attorneys could cite an instance when a wayward wastewater operator ever faced the prospect of incarceration.Tom Philp, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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In the same vein, wayward vines are nipped, and emerging roots thrust deep into the ground, in hopes of harnessing every last nutrient for the potential champion.Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Unmanageable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmanageable. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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