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unsustainable

[uhn-suh-stey-nuh-buhl] / ˌʌn səˈsteɪ nə bəl /
ADJECTIVE
not able to be supported in the future
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Artistically they depend on each other, but the tension between them is unsustainable.

From Los Angeles Times

Investors are concerned that Oracle, already more leveraged than the ”Magnificent Seven” infrastructure builders, will need to take on unsustainable amounts of debt to construct data centers.

From MarketWatch

Sometimes, people show us charts with healthcare spending rising as a percentage of GDP, and that looks unsustainable, but we think it is sustainable.

From Barron's

"If you look at the performance of Leon's peers, you will see that everyone is facing challenges – companies are reporting significant losses due to working patterns and increasingly unsustainable taxes."

From BBC

The Global Environment Outlook, the result of six years' work, connects climate change, nature loss and pollution to unsustainable consumption by people living in wealthy and emerging economies.

From BBC