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unviable
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Not capable of working successfully, surviving, or being carried out.
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The startup's business model proved unviable within its first year.
Doctors determined the pregnancy was unviable early in the first trimester.
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Common in business, medical, and scientific contexts to describe plans, organisms, or projects that cannot survive or succeed.
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