untenable
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That wait-and-see approach became untenable after the disaster in Nepal.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
But have his actions made the situation untenable?
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
First they moved in with McCarthy’s parents—an untenable situation—until he found an abandoned farmhouse on Route 7 in Sevier County, near Walden’s Creek, about half an hour east of Knoxville.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“The status quo is untenable in the short term, and in the long term catastrophic, potentially,” Newsom said in a press conference last week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
For some non-Jews, such as Erwin Schrödinger and nuclear chemist Max Delbrück, the situation was morally untenable.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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