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Recent Examples of unsustainable
The Jets are winning his minutes 8-2 at five-on-five, although it’s taken some unsustainable shooting and save percentages to achieve that.
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Murat Ates, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Last year, several insurers cut coverage across the state due to the increasing risk of paying enormous, unsustainable damages outweighing their profits.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Mishler said the growth of Medicaid has become unsustainable as the state has had to pay $3.3 billion, $1 billion of which was a forecast error, since 2023.
—Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
The scheduling is unpredictable, and the jobs are unsustainable.
—Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025
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Murat Ates, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Last year, several insurers cut coverage across the state due to the increasing risk of paying enormous, unsustainable damages outweighing their profits.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Mishler said the growth of Medicaid has become unsustainable as the state has had to pay $3.3 billion, $1 billion of which was a forecast error, since 2023.
—Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
The scheduling is unpredictable, and the jobs are unsustainable.
—Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsustainable
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Calling for mass deportation instead of providing undocumented immigrants some clemency for their wrongdoing in light of such a history of lawbreaking and pardons involves a double standard that is morally unsupportable.—
Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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The collapse of real estate has impaired local government finances so thoroughly that many now face unsupportable debt obligations of their own.—
Milton Ezrati,
Forbes,
16 Sep. 2024
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Falsehoods that reveal something about the speaker may have enough value to keep, so long as they are rebutted, but detail that is truly unverifiable, or clearly and unfixably specious, will typically be cut: deciding what not to publish can be just as important as deciding what to keep in.—
Fergus McIntosh,
The New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2025
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The two rappers volleyed unverifiable allegations of pedophilia and domestic abuse in scathing diss tracks, but beneath that was a war about aesthetics.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
26 Nov. 2024
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One fear is therefore that the Collatz problem is one of the unprovable statements of mathematics.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
25 July 2024
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Greenwashing involves unfounded or unprovable claims of environmental sustainability.—
Marisa Garcia,
Forbes,
16 Aug. 2024
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“Unsustainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsustainable. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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