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as in cheap
costing little
throughout the trip we ate at bargain-basement restaurants in order to save money
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as in inferior
of low quality
bargain-basement shoes that fell apart after a week
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Recent Examples of bargain-basement
After Disney+ launched in 2019 at a bargain-basement price, the company put its efforts into producing dozens of shows specifically for the streamer, in an attempt to build subscriber interest and loyalty.
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Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
Yet precisely because of the genre’s typically bargain-basement production costs, its ultrazealous fandom, and a powerful word-of-mouth pass-along arguably unmatched throughout cinema, horror can seem at risk of becoming a victim of its own success.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
At the same time, sellers have been reluctant to give up bargain-basement mortgage rates obtained before the Federal Reserve started raising borrowing costs in the winter of 2022 to control inflation.
—Jeff Collins, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
Thanks for the high-quality defensive lineman — among the scarcest resources in football — for the bargain-basement price.
—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2024
The company, which runs more than 1,300 stores across 48 states, is one of the country’s largest closeout retailers and specializes in offering bargain-basement pricing on all things home.
—Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2024
The East Side, the Star’s examination shows, is instead an intricate patchwork of local and outside ownership where thousands of homes and parcels in recent years have been picked up at bargain-basement prices by individuals, small investors and billion-dollar private equity firms.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
On that page were other fancy bikes available for purchase at bargain-basement prices, including one from Santa Clara, another from San Jose, and a rare white mountain bike from the Ugandan brand Gorilla.
—Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
The interior is sparse, but its fresh design focusing on minimalism and sustainability creates a feel that's bespoke, not bargain-basement.
—Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2024
Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
Yet precisely because of the genre’s typically bargain-basement production costs, its ultrazealous fandom, and a powerful word-of-mouth pass-along arguably unmatched throughout cinema, horror can seem at risk of becoming a victim of its own success.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
At the same time, sellers have been reluctant to give up bargain-basement mortgage rates obtained before the Federal Reserve started raising borrowing costs in the winter of 2022 to control inflation.
—Jeff Collins, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
Thanks for the high-quality defensive lineman — among the scarcest resources in football — for the bargain-basement price.
—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2024
The company, which runs more than 1,300 stores across 48 states, is one of the country’s largest closeout retailers and specializes in offering bargain-basement pricing on all things home.
—Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2024
The East Side, the Star’s examination shows, is instead an intricate patchwork of local and outside ownership where thousands of homes and parcels in recent years have been picked up at bargain-basement prices by individuals, small investors and billion-dollar private equity firms.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
On that page were other fancy bikes available for purchase at bargain-basement prices, including one from Santa Clara, another from San Jose, and a rare white mountain bike from the Ugandan brand Gorilla.
—Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
The interior is sparse, but its fresh design focusing on minimalism and sustainability creates a feel that's bespoke, not bargain-basement.
—Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bargain-basement
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Numerous territories across the globe including in Europe, Australia and Canada have solidified these as streaming services take advantage of their cheaper production hubs.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
3 Apr. 2025
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However, note that these are smaller models that could run on a less expensive GPUs or even a CPU with cheaper memory instead of the super expensive HBM memory currently used in all high-end accelerators.—
Karl Freund,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Science popularization should not be considered as inferior to or detracting from traditional scientific research.—
Marshall Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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For more than half of Thursday’s Sweet 16 game against Arkansas, Texas Tech looked like the inferior team.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
28 Mar. 2025
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Netanyahu was told to be reasonable on Turkey Since the fall of the Assad dynasty in Syria late last year, Israel and Turkey have been competing in the country over their separate interests there.—
Time,
Time,
9 Apr. 2025
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Given that this decline coincided with the large-scale movement of the US Commercial fishing fleet into those waters, the idea that overfishing might have something to do with it seemed a reasonable hypothesis.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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The rhetoric pushed here is that someone with a high body count has less value and will either make a terrible partner or no one will want them in the first place.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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The domestic box office is presently in a terrible state, and Minecraft could prove to be the shot of confidence Hollywood studios and cinema owners need after recent films, including Disney’s Snow White, have turned into major disappointments.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Apr. 2025
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What Ruffner saw in June was the power of small and relatively inexpensive changes to standard building practices that can significantly protect homes from wildfires.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2025
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As a good example, Coursera is a highly popular platform for undertaking free and inexpensive online courses and certifications, including Google’s career certificates.—
Rachel Wells,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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There’s a real debate to be had about what responsibility better-off neighborhoods like Hyde Park have to help solve humanitarian problems that often are laid at the feet of poorer areas.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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Job loss also results in people experiencing higher levels of depressive symptoms, poor health, loss of social support, and disruption of social and family ties, according to Jennie E Brand, author of The Far-Reaching Impact of Job Loss and Unemployment.—
Paul Klein,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Perhaps most significantly, in a very price conscious market, the platform maintained its affordable pricing strategy despite the temptation to raise rates after combining two major content libraries.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
4 Apr. 2025
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Some of those goals include creating 10-minute neighborhoods and outlining future development needs such as affordable and mixed-use projects.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Apr. 2025
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Then, the rotten cherry on top: my lightweight pack, overburdened with water and ill-equipped for the task, created a patch of chafe that eventually bloomed into an open wound.—
Shawnté Salabert,
Outside Online,
28 Mar. 2025
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What rotten fortune all around, the best college player in the country – and the coolest – being ousted not by an upset but by injury.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
26 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Bargain-basement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bargain-basement. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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