unsustainable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- unsustainably adverb
Etymology
Origin of unsustainable
1670–80; un- 1 + sustainable ( def. )
Example Sentences
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“But it’s really unsustainable for those Cubans who live with the miserable public salary,” he said, referring to state employees, who earn just a few dollars a month in Cuban currency.
Artistically they depend on each other, but the tension between them is unsustainable.
From Los Angeles Times
Investors are concerned that Oracle, already more leveraged than the ”Magnificent Seven” infrastructure builders, will need to take on unsustainable amounts of debt to construct data centers.
From MarketWatch
Sometimes, people show us charts with healthcare spending rising as a percentage of GDP, and that looks unsustainable, but we think it is sustainable.
From Barron's
"If you look at the performance of Leon's peers, you will see that everyone is facing challenges – companies are reporting significant losses due to working patterns and increasingly unsustainable taxes."
From BBC
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