unviable

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Recent Examples of unviable 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 Cox became an activist after she was forced to leave the state in December 2023 to terminate her unviable pregnancy. Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unviable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unviable
Adjective
  • These individuals, often without any formal guidebook, push their bodies to do what most believe is impossible.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • This lack of specific information makes creating actionable decarbonization strategies nearly impossible, much less achieving real results.
    Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • To see everything is now difficult, if not outright unfeasible; to create a 100-work list that reflects it all is damn near impossible.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Relying on leasing half of those units in the private rental market is unworkable given the critically low 1.4% vacancy rate.
    Pascale Leone, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Washington offered mixed messages, with Trump initially dismissing it as unworkable before other administration officials welcomed the initiative.
    Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • In other words, an attacker would need to fool all or nearly all nodes to remain hidden—which quickly becomes infeasible as more light nodes join.
    Ayush Gupta, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • An ectopic pregnancy is an inherently nonviable one.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The most innovative ideas often seem strange or impractical at first.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • European Army and the EU The nebulous idea of a European military has long floated around, but mostly dismissed as impractical and unnecessary while NATO exists in its current form.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But with Trump’s overt hostility to all things IRA, scale-up is unlikely.
    Jim Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2025
  • And while Tarantino would be unlikely to direct a film for Netflix given his insistence on theatrical exclusivity, the streaming service is Fincher’s longtime home.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 1 Apr. 2025

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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.

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