unmanageable
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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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