as in unsupportable
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Recent Examples of unsustainable
People stay in roles out of necessity rather than loyalty—an unsustainable arrangement that results in predictably low engagement.
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Eric Anicich, Harvard Business Review, 4 Nov. 2024
The business of staging a fashion show for many young labels has become an expensive and unsustainable practice that doesn’t produce results.
—Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 25 Oct. 2024
The extensive computational power required for mining operations is both environmentally and economically unsustainable.
—Eric Solis, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
But the growth was unsustainable, and slowed when pandemic restrictions began to ease.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
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Eric Anicich, Harvard Business Review, 4 Nov. 2024
The business of staging a fashion show for many young labels has become an expensive and unsustainable practice that doesn’t produce results.
—Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 25 Oct. 2024
The extensive computational power required for mining operations is both environmentally and economically unsustainable.
—Eric Solis, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
But the growth was unsustainable, and slowed when pandemic restrictions began to ease.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for unsustainable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsustainable
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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
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That would in effect make ownership of stocks unsupportable by the rich and this of course would end up crushing all those Americans hoping their stock portfolio will be the source of a happy retirement.Clem Chambers, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
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Workers also have the right to dispute any incomplete, inaccurate, or unverifiable information.Alonzo Martinez, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Investigating these unverifiable fables about aliens should be scrapped as a fool’s errand for AARO, which earlier this year released a historical review demolishing this long-running conspiracy theory.Luis Cayetano Simmari, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2024
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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 22 Nov. 2024.
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