as in unbearable
more than can be put up with
these high taxes are just unsupportable
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Recent Examples of unsupportable
Someone in this case simply made up a novel but completely unsupportable theory.
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Peter J Reilly, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Calling for mass deportation instead of providing undocumented immigrants some clemency for their wrongdoing in light of such a history of lawbreaking and pardons involves a double standard that is morally unsupportable.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
The complex math behind screening befuddled the researchers’ attempts to assess whether screening helped people live longer, leading to unsupportable conclusions.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsupportable
unbearable
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For reasons that are quite possibly too unbearable to contemplate, a large group of American voters was not repulsed by such slander—they were actually aroused by it—and our politics have not been the same.—
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The 2025-26 cycle, in its early stages, has also mobilized students, laborers, women, and ethnic minorities, suggesting the potential for broader mobilization amid unbearable economic conditions.—
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“Unsupportable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsupportable. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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