How to Use cost-benefit in a Sentence

cost-benefit

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• Do not look at life purely from a cost-benefit analysis standpoint.
  — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2024
• The state resolved last year to conduct an in-depth, cost-benefit analysis of its data center industry and tax break.
  — Lulu Ramadan, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2024
• The structures that the United States has for making those decisions tend to use cost-benefit analyses.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 19 June 2024
• The higher number flips the cost-benefit equation in favor of requiring trucks to have side guards.
  — A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 13 June 2023
• Grace is not bemoaning the state of the modern game as much as appraising the shift in its cost-benefit analysis.
  — Zach Buchanan, New York Times, 28 July 2023
• The cost-benefit analysis may explain why Ukraine hasn’t made a full-throated push for Australia’s FA-18s … yet, that is.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2023
• So where the cost-benefit analysis doesn’t add up, grocery stores often don’t open.
  — Luke Fountain, Charlotte Observer, 13 June 2024
• The video shows Kennedy questioning Spellmon about costs and cost-benefit analyses of flood control projects.
  — USA TODAY, 9 May 2023
• During the interview, Quirk talked about the expense of the tunnel, low ridership on the train, and the need for a cost-benefit analysis before the project proceeds.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2023
• The project has been decades in the making, but the state audit said the agency should have conducted a cost-benefit analysis before board approval.
  — Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
• But a thorough cost-benefit analysis does not, in fact, suggest that the rewards have been significant—or that the costs to Ukraine will remain low.
  — Sergey Vakulenko, Foreign Affairs, 25 June 2024
• This has less to do with the ongoing actors strike in the U.S. and more with the cost-benefit analysis of individual channels and platforms.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2023
• The cost-benefit equation doesn’t account for moral hazard, either.
  — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
• The abatement is valued at roughly $1.2 million, according to a cost-benefit analysis conducted to study the impact on the tax rolls.
  — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024
• When asked this very question at his press conference, Buttigieg mentioned an obscure cost-benefit requirement that Congress imposed on the brake rule in 2015.
  — Reid Frazier, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• And as our heroes attempt to balance the books on this very risky business venture, the series is running its own kind of cost-benefit analysis about the arts — culinary or otherwise.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
• Made of material that is invisible to radar, according to Ukrainian outlet Pravda, the drones help to even out the cost-benefit imbalance of the war.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2024
• So far, officials have demurred, saying the cost-benefit analysis doesn’t work because of Rodanthe’s small tax base and the fact that the erosion is so relentless.
  — Brady Dennis, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2023
• The latter could influence cost-benefit analyses of companies looking to open shop in Arizona.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 8 Feb. 2024
• In a few cities, cost-benefit analyses showed returning to nature was cheaper than maintaining concrete culverts.
  — Jim Morrison, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023
• The cost-benefit ratio of desulfurization technologies was key to solving acid rain.
  — Hannah Ritchie, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
• So are decision matrices, pros and cons lists, and cost-benefit analyses that can help structure your thinking and bring a more rational perspective to your decisions.
  — Bryce Hoffman, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• The proposal scored low among other applications for rescue plan money based on the cost-benefit analysis, Dotson said.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2023
• What gets protected in communities — and how that is done — is determined through a cost-benefit analysis, by the Corps, which focuses on property values.
  — Jim Morrison, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• For an example of this kind of cost-benefit analysis, consider the policy debate over whether children are better off being raised by two married parents.
  — Marcia Zug, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
• Many within the Army Corps are aware that its cost-benefit analysis is doing a poor job of ensuring that all Americans, no matter their race or income, are protected from the escalating flood threats of a warming planet.
  — Geoff Dembicki, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
• In our era of scarce resources, wrenching cycles of flood and drought and painful cost-benefit calculations, every argument and counterargument for flooding the valley echoes even louder.
  — Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• Murdoch went along with their misconception, until his cost-benefit calculation moved against them.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• The cost-benefit equation has been altered, however, by pandemic-era supply chain disruptions.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• In the language of cost-benefit analysis, the costs in terms of infringing on individual freedom of action are much smaller than the societal benefits, so the net benefits are positive.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024