How to Use nonviable in a Sentence

nonviable

adjective
  • The idea is that female plants will latch onto it and produce nonviable seeds.
    — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Such pregnancies are nonviable and can be fatal to the mother.
    — Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2025
  • This type of pregnancy is nonviable and may be life-threatening if it is not treated.
    — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The patient was forced to go through a painful, hours-long labor to deliver a nonviable fetus, with heavy loss of blood.
    — Harris Meyer, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The vet team amputated nonviable tissue from the tegu's tongue.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The law makes no exceptions for nonviable pregnancies in which the fetus has no chance of survival.
    — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
  • In the past, Jackie and Shadow have lost eggs that have been nonviable, and some have been eaten by ravens.
    — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The hospital has not disposed of any nonviable embryos, Liu said.
    — Staff, cleveland.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Both the autopsy and expert testimony show that the fetus died while in the womb and was nonviable.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Forcing a woman to carry to term a nonviable fetus—a fetus or baby that will not survive—is a heinous form of torture.
    — Erin Coulehan, Glamour, 4 May 2022
  • That’s when temperatures in the freezer rose, leaving the eggs and embryos nonviable.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Some believe embryos – even if frozen, in a test tube, and nonviable unless implanted – should be protected as human.
    — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Her 22-week-old fetus had been declared nonviable by doctors several days prior.
    — Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • But if a planning pause was also directed, that could cause offensive options to become stale and therefore nonviable.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Fetal conditions, like a nonviable twin that threatens the health of its sibling, can also imperil the mother.
    — Stephanie Sinclair Jaime Lowe, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2022
  • However, two doctors must agree that the fetus is nonviable, adding a significant burden to the patient.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
  • Miller had to travel to Colorado to get a selective fetal reduction of the nonviable fetus.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The doctors informed her that the fetus was nonviable and would die, either before or shortly after delivery, the lawsuit said.
    — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 15 Jan. 2025
  • As land prices and wine prices become locked in a vicious circle, each forcing the other higher and higher, even purchasing wine becomes nonviable for many.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Marketers need to be prepared to shift their focus if one or more of their key platforms shift in such a way that marketing on it becomes nonviable for a short or long period of time.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But the drug is also used as a standard treatment during miscarriages to help speed the process of expelling nonviable tissue, as an alternative to surgery.
    — Robert Langreth and Aziza Kasumov, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
  • Samantha Casiano Casiano said she was forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term only to watch her baby die four hours after giving birth.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 19 July 2023
  • One plaintiff in the case is Rebecca Vincen-Brown, who learned at 16 weeks that her pregnancy was nonviable.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • The suit also argues that patients with nonviable pregnancies that pose risks to patients' health are unable to get care in North Dakota and have to travel out of state.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Milwaukee police are investigating after a dead and nonviable fetus was left on the street of a south side neighborhood Sunday.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Because of Texas’s ban, this mother of two who had a nonviable pregnancy had to travel out of state for routine medical care—after suing for the right to be treated in her home state.
    — Alison Gemmill, Scientific American, 3 July 2024
  • France and Britain have been at odds in recent months, as the British government has renewed its calls to make the Channel crossing between the two countries nonviable.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Even if the patient is on life support and a decision is made to pull the plug, about 30 percent of the time the organs become nonviable as blood pressure drops and circulation grinds to a halt.
    — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 4 May 2020
  • Of these pregnancies, around 20% will be ectopic (implanted in places other than the uterus) and nonviable (not capable of developing).
    — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Since 2006, the procedure has been permitted in Colombia in cases of rape, nonviable pregnancy and when the life or health of the mother was in danger.
    — Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2022

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