unsustainable

Definition of unsustainablenext

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Recent Examples of unsustainable According to a statement released on social media, the Lowry Hill restaurant says a series of compounding incidents have made business unsustainable for the last few years. Aki Nace, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026 This is all to say that a costly rotisserie chicken may or may not be worth $77 in the public’s eyes, but the pricing represents a much larger crisis in the restaurant industry, long deemed unsustainable. Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026 Spain's opposition Popular Party slammed the measure, with party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo calling it unsafe and unsustainable. ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026 Those first claims set a precedent for payments that could render the program unsustainable in the long term, Sedgeley said. Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unsustainable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsustainable
Adjective
  • Currah’s opinion piece is wrong on the facts, the law, and the science, and reaches unsupportable conclusions.
    Paisley Currah, The New York Review of Books, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The venerable but troubled outlet has been for sale since its previous owners ran up unsupportable debts and were removed in 2023.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 24 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Researchers contend with a patchwork of numbers Figures the administration has released are inconsistent and unverifiable.
    Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Figures the administration has released are inconsistent and unverifiable.
    ABC News, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Researchers already had reason to believe that the pigeonhole principle can’t be proved from the axioms of PV1 alone, so Li, Chen and Oliveira’s results imply that their other equivalent theorems are also likely unprovable in PV1.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Given that many of Epstein’s correspondents are redacted and that threads start and stop randomly, many of the emails are perfect building blocks for constructing plausible but ultimately unprovable narratives.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2025

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“Unsustainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/unsustainable. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.

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