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Recent Examples of unviable
However, high interest rates make this upfront capital more expensive to access, thus making projects cost more or even become financially unviable.
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Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
The companies also need to make a profit off their enhanced fruits — but the higher prices might make those alternatives commercially unviable.
—Charlotte Lytton, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024
Ventures employing it generated more revenues than those that didn’t and were also more likely to pivot away from unviable ideas, a necessity for early-stage firms.
—Harvard Business Review, 1 July 2024
Firms employing the scientific method—the centuries-old discipline of formulating, testing, and tweaking hypotheses—generated more revenue than companies in a control group did and were more likely to pivot away from unviable ideas, a routine necessity for early-stage start-ups.
—Harvard Business Review, 1 July 2024
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Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
The companies also need to make a profit off their enhanced fruits — but the higher prices might make those alternatives commercially unviable.
—Charlotte Lytton, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024
Ventures employing it generated more revenues than those that didn’t and were also more likely to pivot away from unviable ideas, a necessity for early-stage firms.
—Harvard Business Review, 1 July 2024
Firms employing the scientific method—the centuries-old discipline of formulating, testing, and tweaking hypotheses—generated more revenue than companies in a control group did and were more likely to pivot away from unviable ideas, a routine necessity for early-stage start-ups.
—Harvard Business Review, 1 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unviable
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Travel conditions in some areas were expected to be difficult if not impossible.Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2024
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Some worry that this will put an impossible burden on public welfare and health care systems and on younger generations who will have to care for a huge population of older people.Vegard Skirbekk, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
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The reality is that paying the full social cost of carbon seems unfeasible, but mounting evidence shows that the costs of inaction are even higher.Nils Rokke, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
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However, that bank also rejected Tasi Mane as essentially unfeasible.Charlie Campbell / Dili, Timor-Leste, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
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Chandra Wallace:So as companies are starting to implement this and starting to discover maybe how unworkable some of these rules might be, is 90 days enough time to give taxpayers to comment on 600 pages of rules?Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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The bread debacle can seem like a straw man designed to make the whole system look pointless and unworkable.Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
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Instead of clinging to an infeasible definition of victory, Washington must grapple with the grim reality of the war and come to terms with a more plausible outcome.Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
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After all, having 200,000 immortal or self-replicating monkeys working consistently until the end of the universe is just as infeasible as having infinite time to begin with.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2024
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The plan’s 10-year phase-in period, which was intended to lower costs and make implementation more feasible, was criticized as impracticable.Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 July 2024
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Contractual force majeure is rarely invoked and enforced to allow the nonperformance of contracts that have become either impossible or impracticable due to some catastrophic event, including natural disasters and wars.Alexander Talel, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023
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Four women who are suing the state of Idaho after they were denied abortions will testify starting Tuesday about their experiences traveling out of state to end nonviable pregnancies.Aria Bendix, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
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In post-Roe America, women detail agony of being forced to carry nonviable pregnancies to term More than a dozen medical experts who reviewed the medical records told ProPublica that her death was preventable.Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2024
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The company continues to evaluate avenues for mitigating internal control weaknesses but has deemed complete mitigation impractical due to its limited staff size.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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The standoff between Blanche’s impractical aestheticism and Stanley’s ruthless pragmatism is the heart of this quintessentially American drama.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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They're paired up as roommates and forge an unlikely friendship, but after an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum), Glinda and Elphaba go down two starkly different paths.Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024
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Langer’s unlikely 30-foot putt for birdie capped a thrilling, down to the wire season-ending tournament.Candace Oehler, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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“Unviable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unviable. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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