as in uneconomical
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Recent Examples of unaffordable
Meanwhile, many of the biggest health care companies have continued to see their stock prices soar.
Between the lines: The solution to unaffordable health care costs for consumers has usually been some version of new government spending.
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Maya Goldman, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
Food inflation in Russia is around 25%, interest rates on loans is a usurious 25%, and lending has come to a near complete halt, making ordinary life unbearable and unaffordable for normal Russians.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, TIME, 26 Feb. 2025
Your book makes a compelling case that local zoning restrictions have created barriers to geographic mobility by making housing so scarce and unaffordable.
—Rachel Cohen, Vox, 18 Feb. 2025
Solar photovoltaic panels and battery energy storage were once unaffordable at large scale.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unaffordable
Maya Goldman, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
Food inflation in Russia is around 25%, interest rates on loans is a usurious 25%, and lending has come to a near complete halt, making ordinary life unbearable and unaffordable for normal Russians.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, TIME, 26 Feb. 2025
Your book makes a compelling case that local zoning restrictions have created barriers to geographic mobility by making housing so scarce and unaffordable.
—Rachel Cohen, Vox, 18 Feb. 2025
Solar photovoltaic panels and battery energy storage were once unaffordable at large scale.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unaffordable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaffordable
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Reducing or waiving exorbitant permit fees, avoiding additional climate-action mandates and streamlining the permitting process would help expand the housing supply, lower prices and stem the outflow of people.—
Mark Powell,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Mar. 2025
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Yet here the Russos are again, with another exorbitant attempt to establish a new blockbuster series.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
19 Mar. 2025
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Torrey Pines is aiming for its seventh straight Open Division title and is a prohibitive favorite.—
Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Mar. 2025
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Another report in 2022 found that most Americans, overall, see the benefits of higher education but are concerned about high tuition and student debt — 83% said college costs are prohibitive to low-income students.—
Jessica Dickler,
CNBC,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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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The words were harsh but the logic was not unreasonable.—
George Caulkin,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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This would not be an unreasonable proposition, considering the U.S. already pledged a security guarantee to Ukraine upon its return of all nuclear warheads to Russia by 1996, based on the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances.—
Seung-Whan Choi,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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But maybe the big winners were simply the most expensive films?—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
21 Mar. 2025
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The most expensive trim, the Sapphire ($250,000), is not eligible for the discount.—
Emily Forlini,
PCMAG,
21 Mar. 2025
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Ariane 6 and Vega C are costly, lack a path to reusability, and aren't geared to match SpaceX's blistering launch cadence.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
23 Mar. 2025
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The department is designed to ensure equitable access to quality education nationwide and enforces protections for students with disabilities, Its dismantling could be more costly for Trump-voting states than blue states, Axios' April Rubin has reported.—
Axios,
Axios,
22 Mar. 2025
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And in January 2024, a steep entertainment tax on services by karaoke bars, spas, and nightclubs had been proposed, though that was scrapped the next month after backlash from local businesses.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
28 Mar. 2025
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Hop aboard one of the town’s white Volkswagen Beetle taxis to navigate the steep streets, or take the cable car to Hotel Montetaxco—a fine place for views of Taxco rooftops and to rest your head for the night.—
Meagan Drillinger,
AFAR Media,
28 Mar. 2025
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One renter in a one-bedroom in a pricey new Carroll Street building stuffed the vestibule outside her apartment with a shelving system to contain dozens of shoes and a foam roller, while lining the stairwell leading to the roof with a tower of plastic bins and suitcases, a folding chair, and bags.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
19 Mar. 2025
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However, the even thinner HP Omen Transcend 16 does put the Slim in a bit of an awkward in-between spot in HP’s lineup, but similarly equipped Transcend 16 models can be pricey.—
Matthew Buzzi,
PCMAG,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Unaffordable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaffordable. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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