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unviable

British  
/ ʌnˈvaɪəbəl /

adjective

  1. not capable of succeeding, esp financially

    the pit had proved economically unviable

"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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Investors fear artificial intelligence will render the products of design-software companies like Adobe unviable.

From MarketWatch Jun. 11, 2026

Some wells forced offline may only ever recover a fraction of their prior volume or become economically unviable.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

Unlike metal, paper or glass, consumer plastics are made up of thousands of different types, or polymers, making large-scale recycling economically unviable.

From Barron's Jan. 22, 2026

Current global oil market conditions make large-scale Venezuelan investment economically unviable.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 12, 2026

Public subsidy allowed formats that had become financially unviable - such as the nineteenth-century symphony orchestra - to prosper somewhat artificially in the twentieth century, justified by the preservation of heritage.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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