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unmanageable

British  
/ ʌnˈmænɪdʒəbəl /

adjective

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

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Unmanageable workloads “is a nationwide issue. It’s not specific to just community pharmacy or specialty pharmacies. It is across the board, the entire industry. Our highest concern is patient safety.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2024

Unmanageable filth, it turns out, is a feature of modernity, though dirt undermines our notion of progress.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 24, 2019

Unmanageable debt is the match that lights the fire of every crisis.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2018

Unmanageable dark hair, brown eyes behind thick glasses, a large nose with a bump at the bridge like all the Masciarotte clan had.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2016

Unmanageable, un-man′āj-a-bl, adj. not manageable, not easily controlled or directed.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various