unsustainable
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“The familiar concern is fiscal stability: mounting debt may become unsustainable and end in implicit or explicit default. I ask a different question,” he writes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
As a result, many creators began to view this creative path they had once wanted more than anything as totally unsustainable.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Raman contends that Bass’ signature program Inside Safe, which dismantles encampments and moves people living there into motels, hotels and interim housing, is overly expensive and unsustainable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
“Everybody just acknowledges quietly to each other that, on the one hand, it’s unsustainable but, on the other hand, why would you stop?” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn’t merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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