How to Use cost-benefit in a Sentence

cost-benefit

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  • And the higher the value of the sale, the cost-benefit versus a card transaction is greater.
    — Paul Marcantonio, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The cost-benefit ratio is in North Korea’s favor at the moment.
    — Daniel Depetris, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2024
  • As always, weigh the cost-benefit analysis of the shortcut.
    — Jennifer C. Wolfe, Esq., Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The higher number flips the cost-benefit equation in favor of requiring trucks to have side guards.
    — A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 13 June 2023
  • Part of this process is thinking carefully about the cost-benefit trade-offs of expressing your anger.
    — Laura Rees, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • One way to assess that is to look at an economist’s tool set called a cost-benefit analysis.
    — Anita Alves Pena, The Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The structures that the United States has for making those decisions tend to use cost-benefit analyses.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 19 June 2024
  • 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
  • Do not look at life purely from a cost-benefit analysis standpoint.
    — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 17 July 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Zoom out: Pharmacies' cost-benefit decisions about which drugs to dispense go beyond Medicare, the survey shows.
    — Maya Goldman, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024
  • In essence, there’s a cost-benefit analysis companies like Deere must perform that goes beyond number-crunching.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Any delay in the progression of Alzheimer's is priceless for patients – and for their families, whose interests did not feature in Nice's cost-benefit analysis.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 31 Aug. 2024
  • This can improve the cost-benefit analysis of adopting AI, clarifying its impact on your bottom line.
    — Vall Herard, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • According to the team, this suggests that the animals are aware of their surroundings and are making cost-benefit decisions regarding the most energy-efficient paths to take.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2025
  • But if companies are forced to move their labor to more expensive countries, like the U.S., that cost-benefit calculation changes drastically.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Apr. 2025

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