unviable
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Still, Dyson has failed before—most recently with its electric car, which was scrapped after years and years in development when the market shifted and it became commercially unviable to put into production.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Investors fear artificial intelligence will render the products of design-software companies like Adobe unviable.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
Axe Valley Wildlife Park closed its doors in October after saying it had become "financially unviable" to continue operating.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 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
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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