Example Sentences

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In the old top-down model of fame that incubated him, that would have been a laughable proposition, or at minimum, an unbankable one.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2020

Whereas earlier great American playwrights were victims of becoming unbankable, Mamet has suffered, perversely, from the opposite problem.

From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2013

Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2013

By the early 2000s he was branded unbankable.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2012

As depositors trooped in with funds that had been unbankable all week, bankers cheerily announced that the rate of return was far faster than the rate of outgo had been.

From Time Magazine Archive