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Recent Examples of unviable
Smaller insurance companies with local concentration may become unviable and only national behemoths will survive through rate increases.
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Phillip Molnar, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2025
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
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Phillip Molnar, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unviable
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That’s mathematically impossible, the Congressional Budget Office says, without cutting Medicaid, which provides health coverage to more than 70 million people.—
Mike Lillis,
The Hill,
14 Apr. 2025
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Jokić nearly broke the all-time mark for Player Efficiency Rating (PER), whatever that is, and completed the seemingly impossible feat of averaging a triple-double while playing center.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Correa also argued that assigning national security responsibilities to the Department of Education, especially amid the Trump administration’s efforts to shut down the department, is unfeasible.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
27 Mar. 2025
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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
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The decision responds to significant concerns from auto dealers, manufacturers and the Maryland Freedom Caucus about the unworkable timeline and potential economic impacts, aiming to provide additional time for compliance.—
Ryan Nawrocki,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Apr. 2025
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But after decades of wrestling with the issue he’s concluded that spending controls are unworkable, as loopholes invariably open.—
Megan O’Matz,
ProPublica,
6 Apr. 2025
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While a traffic signal remains infeasible at the intersection, staff and the applicant agreed to further traffic calming methods such as signage and striping to enhance the safety of vehicles traveling on the road.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Mar. 2025
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But building large-scale, cutting-edge AI data centers in every country is financially and logistically infeasible given the enormous upfront costs, uneven availability of skilled labor, and high demands for land, energy, and water.—
Colin H. Kahl,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Jan. 2025
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But his chairman had requested the impracticable.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
10 Feb. 2025
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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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The doctors informed her that the fetus was nonviable and would die, either before or shortly after delivery, the lawsuit said.—
Jennifer Rodriguez,
Kansas City Star,
15 Jan. 2025
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Were those embryos really nonviable?—
Jamie Ducharme,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
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Tapping into the endowment may be impractical for several reasons, including that some of it is legally restricted, but also because some of the unrestricted money is tied up in illiquid assets, such as in hedge funds, private equity and real estate that can’t be easily sold.—
Kara Scannell,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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Blockchain might revolutionize insurance claim processing while proving impractical for emergency communications.—
Chloe Demrovsky,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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With a Labour government entrenched until at least 2029, that’s unlikely to happen anytime, but the big brands are also big planners, and always thinking about the success of the next generation.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
10 Apr. 2025
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That means consumers and businesses are unlikely to see any relief on loan rates in the near term, although economists are penciling in cuts later in the year, with the majority forecasting a reduction at the Fed's June 18 meeting.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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