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Recent Examples of unsustainable
Advanced-stage care can currently cost up to $175,000 per year for every patient, which is simply unsustainable.
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Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
Both options, renting and buying in New York City, felt unsustainable to me.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Financial Case for Connected Care Health care costs are rising globally, and the current trajectory is unsustainable.
—Dr. Fatih Mehmet Gul, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
But in 2020, Park Service officials released a report arguing that sea turtle recovery costs at the seashore were unsustainable at nearly $2 million per year, and recommended reallocating funds to other projects, such as habitat restoration and beach cleanup.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025
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Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
Both options, renting and buying in New York City, felt unsustainable to me.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Financial Case for Connected Care Health care costs are rising globally, and the current trajectory is unsustainable.
—Dr. Fatih Mehmet Gul, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
But in 2020, Park Service officials released a report arguing that sea turtle recovery costs at the seashore were unsustainable at nearly $2 million per year, and recommended reallocating funds to other projects, such as habitat restoration and beach cleanup.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsustainable
Adjective
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Calling for mass deportation instead of providing undocumented immigrants some clemency for their wrongdoing in light of such a history of lawbreaking and pardons involves a double standard that is morally unsupportable.—
Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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The collapse of real estate has impaired local government finances so thoroughly that many now face unsupportable debt obligations of their own.—
Milton Ezrati,
Forbes,
16 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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What Lexington Law offers Identification of negative items and possible challenges – Lexington Law identifies inaccuracies and unverifiable information on your credit report.—
Victor Rosario,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Feb. 2025
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That means there are a lot of unverifiable claims made by people with large followings.—
Riley Mcdermid,
Boston Herald,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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One fear is therefore that the Collatz problem is one of the unprovable statements of mathematics.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
25 July 2024
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Greenwashing involves unfounded or unprovable claims of environmental sustainability.—
Marisa Garcia,
Forbes,
16 Aug. 2024
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“Unsustainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsustainable. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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