sustainably
[suh-stey-nuh-blee]
- in a way that allows for continual use of a natural resource without depleting it or causing environmental damage: sustainably grown coffee.
- in a way that can be sustained in the long term: a sustainably profitable business.
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Its model has the potential to sustainably improve sanitation in dense, urban areas unequipped with a proper sewage grid.
You can sustainably harvest a forest while destroying the forest ecosystem, and this same concept applies to the ocean.
When the airlines are able to be sustainably profitable, everybody wins.
Those Awful Airline Fees From United, American, Delta, and the Rest Add UpWilliam J. McGee
August 13, 2012
The only crash diet that truly works is one that allows you to lose real fat and lose it as fast as sustainably possible.