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- adjective In an
untenable way.
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Examples
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The host asks whether that was so untenably "dumb as to be disqualifying for president"?
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: The Fog of Wars, Education in America, Palin in Israel HuffPost Radio 2011
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The host asks whether that was so untenably "dumb as to be disqualifying for president"?
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: The Fog of Wars, Education in America, Palin in Israel HuffPost Radio 2011
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But unless the surprise includes stimulating the home-building and construction industries, the unemployment rate will remain untenably high for an extended time.
Jerry Chautin: It's Construction, Stupid! It's Home Building, Stupid! Jerry Chautin 2011
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Right, because holographic prosperity based on an untenably inflated housing bubble, malfeasance by financial institutions and tax cuts for the rich, all of which is poised to cause a giant economic collapse ... well, that's better than responsible prosperity, isn't it?
Biden credits stimulus plan with sparking economic recovery 2009
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But unless the surprise includes stimulating the home-building and construction industries, the unemployment rate will remain untenably high for an extended time.
Jerry Chautin: It's Construction, Stupid! It's Home Building, Stupid! Jerry Chautin 2011
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But unless the surprise includes stimulating the home-building and construction industries, the unemployment rate will remain untenably high for an extended time.
Jerry Chautin: It's Construction, Stupid! It's Home Building, Stupid! Jerry Chautin 2011
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My head begins to spin and I grimly realize that an ad may appear alongside this very posting, just as an ad for investing in nuclear energy appears in my posting on the BP oil spill in which I mention the perils of our president's and nation's untenably blasé attitude about nuclear energy.
Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010
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My head begins to spin and I grimly realize that an ad may appear alongside this very posting, just as an ad for investing in nuclear energy appears in my posting on the BP oil spill in which I mention the perils of our president's and nation's untenably blasé attitude about nuclear energy.
Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010
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My head begins to spin and I grimly realize that an ad may appear alongside this very posting, just as an ad for investing in nuclear energy appears in my posting on the BP oil spill in which I mention the perils of our president's and nation's untenably blasé attitude about nuclear energy.
Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010
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Also of great concern to me is the possibility that untenably low payments will have a chilling effect on the research and development necessary to spur what promises to be the next great breakthrough in prescription drug treatment: personalized medicine, which would treat with pharmaceuticals and biologics tailored to an individual's genetic make-up.
Dick Gephardt: Medicare Must Remain a Responsibility of Congress Dick Gephardt 2011
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