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Recent Examples of unmanageable One in three Americans report carrying unmanageable levels of debt in 2024, according to a recent study from the Financial Health Network. Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025 Without this foundation, systems and processes will fail—and the resulting manual, frustrating work will become unmanageable. Rana Robillard, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025 Tonight, a key colleague is absent, and the job facing Floria goes from challenging to unmanageable. Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025 Scalpers are a big problem making the concert-going experience worse — but at the root of the chaos is unmanageable, roof-shattering demand that has warped beyond recognition what people are willing to pay for a show. Whizy Kim, Vox, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unmanageable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmanageable
Adjective
  • Joking was her version of uncontrollable tears, but Dr. Fenton neither laughed nor pressed to see what was behind Lilian’s inane laughter.
    Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Separating benefits from employee health also allows businesses to escape uncontrollable, often double-digit, group plan renewals.
    Jack Hooper, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • One daughter, loving but stubborn, leaves for Vilna to study nursing.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The true top is still stubborn, though: In 2023 women made up just over 10% of Fortune 500 CEOs, 9% of the FTSE CEOs, and 5.4% of CEOs of the S&P Global Broad Market Index.
    Kweilin Ellingrud, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Climate change will create intractable problems for some countries and open new opportunities for others, encouraging a race for territory.
    Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2025
  • What’s more, Asian elephants are highly social, highly intelligent, and endangered, raising intractable ethical obstacles to experimenting on them.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But Mayhem is about using music as archeology to excavate unruly parts of one’s own identity.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The eight-episode Season 1 of The Franchise followed the crew of an unloved franchise movie fighting for their place in a savage and unruly cinematic universe.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • South Korea was becoming ungovernable; the system seemed unable to overcome intense partisan divisions and deliver any kind of policy.
    ROBERT E. KELLY, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The result is a massively flawed information market and an increasingly ungovernable world.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • On the other hand lies the more difficult but ultimately more promising path: repudiation of that post-2008 legacy and a conscientious return to a politics of the prudential center.
    Newsweek, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
  • But their happy romance is soon demolished when Jenny reappears in their lives, thrusting all three into a difficult and messy journey towards true accountability and adulthood.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Bismarck had a reputation as a wily man who could potentially bring the recalcitrant Lower House to heel.
    Christine Adams / Made by History, TIME, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Still, this initial success against such a recalcitrant tumor has broader implications for using personalized mRNA vaccines to target other common tumors that have so far been resistant to other kinds of immunotherapy, Balachandran says.
    Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The battle between parents and wayward children is the archetypal plot of modernization.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
  • By this point, there’s no need to rehash its difficult production: What matters is what’s on the screen, a tale of how a wayward son (Al Pacino) discovers that his mild refutations of his family’s dark business are ultimately just talk.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025

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“Unmanageable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmanageable. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.

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