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unsustaining en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + sustaining.

Meanings

1. That does not sustain.
   • unsustaining food
   • It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse. 2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 May 2021:

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