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unmanageable

British  
/ ʌnˈmænɪdʒəbəl /

adjective

  1. difficult or impossible to control, use, or manipulate

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The attack succeeded primarily because of a lack of basic technical guardrails, not an unmanageable explosion in AI capability, they wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

In addition, they note that now, parents will still have access to the debt, but thanks to the changes to repayment, they won’t have much of a safety valve if it becomes unmanageable.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

In a long overdue move, we reduced the list from over 200 unmanageable categories to 31.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026

Anna Jackson, who farms near Scunthorpe, said the price of fertiliser was also becoming unmanageable.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

It had become a place where no one had any idea what was supposed to occur . . . increasingly unmanageable.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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