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sustainable

[suh-stey-nuh-buhl] / səˈsteɪ nə bəl /


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SpaceX can compete there but has no real sustainable advantage.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Wall Street was skeptical that a startup carmaker—let alone one offering electric vehicles—could ever really make enough cars to become sustainable.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

Besides his work with Slow Food, Petrini founded the international Terra Madre network for sustainable agriculture and the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

And Brighton's sustainable model of success has come from hiring coaches who seek to impose themselves on the game through possession, with Roberto de Zerbi and Fabian Hurzeler excelling.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

It is common, among the nonpoor, to think of poverty as a sustainable condition—austere, perhaps, but they get by somehow, don’t they?

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich




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