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Recent Examples of unviable
One former Magma Mine manager has some doubts After a near 25-year struggle to obtain Oak Flat for its copper, Resolution may find the location unviable, says one mining manager who knows the land and what lies beneath it well.
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Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 19 Aug. 2025
But after the acquisition, the company decided that damage to the property from a previous fire and vandals, along with issues around the building encroaching on property lines with the city, made reopening unviable.
—Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Read Next Business Boise-area developer scraps ‘economically unviable’ apartments.
—Marcus Dorsey, Idaho Statesman, 27 Mar. 2025
According to my doctor, the health concerns and complications of carrying an unviable pregnancy include infection, bleeding, sepsis, and death.
—Tara Lipinski, Allure, 15 Oct. 2024
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Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 19 Aug. 2025
But after the acquisition, the company decided that damage to the property from a previous fire and vandals, along with issues around the building encroaching on property lines with the city, made reopening unviable.
—Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Read Next Business Boise-area developer scraps ‘economically unviable’ apartments.
—Marcus Dorsey, Idaho Statesman, 27 Mar. 2025
According to my doctor, the health concerns and complications of carrying an unviable pregnancy include infection, bleeding, sepsis, and death.
—Tara Lipinski, Allure, 15 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unviable
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Five years on, and somehow, the American economy has not only avoided a contraction but has managed to grow—an outcome many investors thought impossible.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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But competing with Swift is basically impossible for anyone, which makes this report a little hard to believe.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
26 Oct. 2025
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McFadden has his own plan to reopen the jail — one that the state called unfeasible.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Oct. 2025
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After the attack, as the Sanford family fought off feelings of panic while trying to adjust to a new normal — help seemed unfeasible.—
Dave Boucher,
Freep.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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Louisiana says law is 'unworkable and unconstitutional' Louisiana, which months ago defended the map legislators drew to include two majority-Black districts, now rejects it.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 2025
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So, yes, as unworkable as this plan might seem for the Palestinian group, a Hamas assent is entirely plausible.—
Hussein Ibish,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
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To break the encryption would mean finding a fast solution to these supposedly infeasible problems, an act that would overturn a foundational assumption of modern math.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
22 Oct. 2025
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The San Jose City Council had previously approved plans for the site that included a combination of up to 850 apartments and condos and a commercial building up to 455,000 square feet, but with the struggles of the office market, the plan became infeasible to finance.—
Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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One is a single state with equal rights for Palestinians and Jews, which would be wonderful but is simply impracticable given attitudes on both sides.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
9 Oct. 2025
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Few school districts will be able to afford costly litigation over opt-out rights or to divert resources to administering impracticable notice and opt-out systems for individual students.—
Stephen L. Carter,
Mercury News,
8 July 2025
Adjective
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Foreclosure would become nonviable as a means of tax collection — with no readily apparent alternative means for timely collection of the delinquent revenue.—
Todd Spangler,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Such pregnancies are nonviable and can be fatal to the mother.—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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If there’s a force majeure clause in the new rights contracts that allows the NBA’s media partners to temporarily halt running sportsbook ads when an unforeseeable event makes such airings impractical, it’s hidden under a tide of black ink.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Robots have become indispensable in environments where high radiation or structural complexity makes human intervention dangerous or impractical.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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Their unlikely friendship ended in February 1987, when Warhol died suddenly after a complicated gall bladder operation.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Oct. 2025
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While the Hong Kong listing should enhance the company’s liquidity and visibility, Zephirin added that a valuation re-rating is unlikely without meaningful gains in capital efficiency or strategy execution.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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