as in uncontrollable
given to resisting control or discipline by others
an unmanageable dog who had to be returned to the pound
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Recent Examples of unmanageable
Sebastian’s wife, Brenda, receives ketamine therapy for what was once unmanageable anxiety.
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Sally Hawkins, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2024
Over the three months since Storen’s dragnet, 88 had pleaded guilty, helping both to build the government’s case and to thin the unmanageable number of defendants to 28.
—Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
Unionized housekeepers, however, have waged a fierce fight to restore automatic daily room cleaning at major hotel chains, saying they have been saddled with unmanageable workloads, or in many cases, fewer hours and a decline in income.
—Alexandra Olson, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Sep. 2024
Staff are too overwhelmed to take proper time off and speak up about their unmanageable workloads, underscoring the pressing need for organizations to create environments that promote authenticity and psychological safety.
—Smriti Joshi, Fortune, 22 July 2024
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Sally Hawkins, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2024
Over the three months since Storen’s dragnet, 88 had pleaded guilty, helping both to build the government’s case and to thin the unmanageable number of defendants to 28.
—Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
Unionized housekeepers, however, have waged a fierce fight to restore automatic daily room cleaning at major hotel chains, saying they have been saddled with unmanageable workloads, or in many cases, fewer hours and a decline in income.
—Alexandra Olson, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Sep. 2024
Staff are too overwhelmed to take proper time off and speak up about their unmanageable workloads, underscoring the pressing need for organizations to create environments that promote authenticity and psychological safety.
—Smriti Joshi, Fortune, 22 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmanageable
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In the not-too-distant past, any car with 824 hp at its rear wheels would have been a wild ride at best, uncontrollable at worst.Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2024
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Societies becoming trapped in these incredibly powerful but ultimately uncontrollable information networks?Sean Illing, Vox, 22 Sep. 2024
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Few modern artists do so much to persuade us that creative endeavor is a struggle—an anxious wrestling with the stubborn materials to hand, and a determination to plow on.Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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Here are some thought on how to approach those difficult but necessary discussions with a stubborn parent who refuses to plan for the future.Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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To the latter, the realization that simply removing human agency from the handling of our affairs has been enough to solve our most intractable problems might reveal too explicitly the shortcomings of human design.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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In the sciences, AI advocates promise that AI will aid in curing hitherto intractable diseases.Nir Eisikovits, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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In the second incident, which took place after 6 p.m., multiple officers were summoned to a section of the stadium where three allegedly unruly fans were ejected but refused to exit, the body camera video shows.Dennis Romero, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Their personas seem derived from the unruly and edgy rockstars of the past.Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 4 Nov. 2024
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But even Jewish-Jewish coalitions have proved ungovernable.Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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The many examples of personal incompetence in rich industrial democracies generated the thesis that such countries had become ungovernable.Harold James, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
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Antiaircraft fire kept the bombers so high, however, that aim was difficult to manage, and the bombs fell indiscriminately, destroying more than 4,300 homes while damaging three-quarters of the city's factories.Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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Lack of work-life balance can make stressful job environments even more difficult to manage.Erik Pham, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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To better prepare an incoming President replacing a recalcitrant one, Republicans and Democrats in Congress in 2022 passed the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act.Brian Bennett, TIME, 2 Nov. 2024
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Just as most sectors of white-collar management have proved more recalcitrant to de-skilling than manual labor, so too the intellectual work of the art historian and critic has taken somewhat longer to de-skill than its avant-garde counterparts.15 But for Buchloh, that moment has come.Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
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The other director’s note that kept him anchored to the spirit of a wayward teen?Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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Fixing up any spots that might be leaking water, such as wayward pipes or wet fountains, will also reduce moisture in your garden, which will ward off gnats seeking egg-laying spots.Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2024
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“Unmanageable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmanageable. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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