as in uneconomical
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Recent Examples of prohibitive
According to Statistics Canada, some of the most common reasons offered for preventing help seeking include being too busy, not knowing where to go, prohibitive costs, and preferring to manage one’s needs on their own.
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Ellen Choi, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
Still, Anderson’s contract is not prohibitive even for more frugal teams.
—Sam Blum, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
Matt Brannon, a data writer at the real estate data company Clever, told CNBC in March that zoning restrictions, prohibitive land costs and lengthy build time are largely to blame for the low supply of houses.
—Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
However, increasing delays, selective disclosures, and prohibitive fees highlight a growing reluctance to share information.
—Bobby Block, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2024
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Ellen Choi, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
Still, Anderson’s contract is not prohibitive even for more frugal teams.
—Sam Blum, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
Matt Brannon, a data writer at the real estate data company Clever, told CNBC in March that zoning restrictions, prohibitive land costs and lengthy build time are largely to blame for the low supply of houses.
—Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
However, increasing delays, selective disclosures, and prohibitive fees highlight a growing reluctance to share information.
—Bobby Block, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2024
See all Example Sentences for prohibitive
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prohibitive
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Holiday travel usually means crowded airports, clogged roadways and exorbitant prices.Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024
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The mayor’s office wants to hike the exorbitant existing rate to 11%, exceeding even the absurdly high 10.25% sales tax ordinary Chicagoans pay on most purchases.The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2024
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Left in the dust ‘Cruise’ driverless robot taxis are seen at a parking lot as California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) revokes its self-driving car permit and citing ‘unreasonable risk to public safety’ in San Francisco, California, USA on October 24, 2023.Kristian Burt, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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To determine whether those amounts posed an unreasonable risk of harm, the agency compared them to a specific benchmark — the highest concentration of formaldehyde measured by government monitors in outdoor air between 2015 and 2020.Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
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Certifying raw-milk dairies was a nice idea, but maintaining those high standards was so costly that the resulting milk was wildly unaffordable, Dupuis wrote in Milk.Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
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With home prices outpacing incomes nationwide, homeownership is unaffordable for many people.Sami Sparber, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
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The cost was rumored to be around $1.5 billion, making Atlantis The Royal one of the most expensive hotels ever built.Joe Niehaus, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2024
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But having the heater on most of the day can equal an expensive electrical bill.Lauren David, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 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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Rather than sticking with costly legacy IT infrastructure, teams can opt for innovation.Tal Dagan, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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As a result, 24,000 machines were unceremoniously abandoned, leaving the individual retailers responsible for the costly removal process.Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 13 Dec. 2024
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Hike along the Beagle Channel on the Senda Costera, or push yourself on the steep Cerro Guanaco Trail for awe-inspiring views of mountains plunging into icy waters.Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2024
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other government ministers met with provincial premiers to discuss Trump's pledge to impose steep tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports after he is sworn in as president in January.Nia Williams and Ismail Shakil, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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Overlanding and off-roading are no longer hobbies of extreme thrill seekers with more Americans traversing local trails and taking their pricey sport utility vehicles and trucks with them.Morgan Korn, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
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And now here was this burgeoning industry of pricey get-over-him getaways and move-on medicines.Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Prohibitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prohibitive. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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