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The outlet said that the move came after a close review of Amazon’s programming costs across its entertainment portfolio, prompted by several expensive series that failed to connect with audiences.Bruce Gil, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
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And inefficiency gets very expensive when homes sit on the market.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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Discontent with crime, homelessness and exorbitant gas prices remain sore spots for voters, despite Newsom’s attempts to address them.Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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While people can buy coverage directly through an insurer, the cost is often exorbitant and usually not an option for undocumented immigrants, Pillai said.Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
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Their objective is to drive up the costs of extracting, refining, distributing, and using oil, natural gas, and coal to the point that electric bills are unaffordable and the economics of investing in the industry no longer make sense.Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Half of all renters pay ‘unaffordable’ rents More than 22 million American households spend at least 30% of their income on rent and utilities, as of 2022, a record high, according to a 2024 report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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For others, the trip is an irrelevant distraction from a cost-of-living crisis as mortgage-holders struggle to find extra cash to finance loans inflated by high interest rates.Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
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The contract was fraudulently inflated by $11 million, prosecutors said.Michael R. Sisak and Jake Offenhartz, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
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The current cost of these high-tech systems is prohibitive for mass-market consumer vehicles.Michael Khouw, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
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The cost of filing—in her case, about $1,800 to cover legal fees—was also prohibitive for someone without any savings.Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
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Blood tests, which can be pricey and aren’t always covered by insurance, were also less cost-effective than other methods, the researchers found.Elizabeth Yuko, Health, 5 Nov. 2024
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But some online shoppers said they’ve also been allowed to keep more pricey products.Jason Ma, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2024
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The results have been a large increase in energy costs for households and industry, driven by levies to subsidise uneconomic generation, and rising volatility in electricity markets accompanied by a higher risk of power outages in future.Gordon Hughes, National Review, 13 May 2024
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Car-makers have warned that U.K. electric-vehicle manufacturing may become uneconomic under the existing U.K.-EU trade deal, which from 2024 requires 45% of the value of EVs to come from the U.K. or EU to avoid tariffs.WSJ, WSJ, 2 June 2023
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As Barca laboured and eventually failed to land some of its transfer targets such as Nico Williams, the proposal for Casado might not have seemed too unreasonable at the time.Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The indictment alleged Hankison deprived Taylor of the right to be free from unreasonable seizures and deprived her neighbors of the right to be free from the deprivation of liberty without due process of law.Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2024
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“Overpriced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overpriced. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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