as in unbearable
more than can be put up with
these high taxes are just unsupportable
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Recent Examples of unsupportable
The complex math behind screening befuddled the researchers’ attempts to assess whether screening helped people live longer, leading to unsupportable conclusions.
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Peter B. Bach, STAT, 7 Sep. 2023
Due to their leadership, the company had a terrible, unsupportable business plan and compounded those issues by hiring an unsustainable workforce of 700 people.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 May 2023
The judiciary is not going to rescue parents from the Left’s abuse of scholastic instruction through means that ought to be anathema to constitutional conservatives regardless: a federal judicial diktat based on an unsupportable reading of free-speech principles.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 25 Oct. 2021
Indeed, her chapter on the subject is riddled with unsupportable claims backed by dubious studies.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2013
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Peter B. Bach, STAT, 7 Sep. 2023
Due to their leadership, the company had a terrible, unsupportable business plan and compounded those issues by hiring an unsustainable workforce of 700 people.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 May 2023
The judiciary is not going to rescue parents from the Left’s abuse of scholastic instruction through means that ought to be anathema to constitutional conservatives regardless: a federal judicial diktat based on an unsupportable reading of free-speech principles.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 25 Oct. 2021
Indeed, her chapter on the subject is riddled with unsupportable claims backed by dubious studies.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2013
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“Unsupportable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsupportable. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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