unsustainable
Example Sentences
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Another said: "This workload is totally unsustainable; I know of one English teacher in my school who is leaving at the end of this academic year because of this."
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
District officials acknowledge their proposals are painful, but said they face an unsustainable financial situation.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
Sports bettors losing money shouldn’t be surprising—where else would you expect sportsbook profits to come from?—but the manner of our collective losses seems both sleazy and unsustainable.
From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026
That implies a more than $25 billion exiting run rate of capex by the end of the year, which they “characterize as runaway, unsustainable, and highly suggestive of an advisable equity capital raise.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026
Thus language-games do not simply succeed, progress, pay, or prove their worth; they can also become unsustainable if the facts change.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing unsustainable
Power Prefix: un-
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Organisms and Environments 1: The Environment
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: un-
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