as in uneconomical
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Recent Examples of unaffordable
The scarcity of desirable land available for sale, combined with increasingly urgent demand, has led to prices unaffordable for most.
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Kristina P. Brant, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2025
While renting remains cheaper than buying across the U.S., monthly payments are still unaffordable for many.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
However, in many regions, even where water is available, access can be unreliable and unaffordable.
—Matt Damon, TIME, 22 Mar. 2025
Childcare was already unaffordable, and providers were already barely scraping by, even before the latest fires.
—Christine Ro, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
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Kristina P. Brant, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2025
While renting remains cheaper than buying across the U.S., monthly payments are still unaffordable for many.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
However, in many regions, even where water is available, access can be unreliable and unaffordable.
—Matt Damon, TIME, 22 Mar. 2025
Childcare was already unaffordable, and providers were already barely scraping by, even before the latest fires.
—Christine Ro, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unaffordable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaffordable
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That won’t stop our trade partners from making these exorbitant numbers real, however, when many inevitably respond with matching tariff hikes in return.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit on Friday to prevent Musk from handing out the exorbitant payments to voters, though an appellate court denied his request.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
31 Mar. 2025
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Structural damage has made the landmark St. Peter Church on Franklin Square unstable, and the cost of repairs would be prohibitive, church officials said Monday.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
25 Mar. 2025
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Control of the Postal Service could offer additional ways to undermine elections, perhaps by raising the price of postage, so that the cost to the states of mailing ballots would be prohibitive, or by banning the automatic mailing of ballots to voters.—
Sue Halpern,
The New Yorker,
12 Mar. 2025
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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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The organization then uses these funds to offer mortgage loans to more people—conventional loans—, which are usually less expensive and require lower down payments.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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The Charlotte Observer found that all of CLT Airport’s parking lots are more expensive than all but one of the off-airport sites.—
Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Apr. 2025
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Broadway is a costly, heavily unionized business and stars like Washington and Clooney don’t like to get tied up in the same project for months, let alone years.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
6 Apr. 2025
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Both problems made an appearance in Saturday night’s costly 121-115 overtime loss to the Milwaukee Bucks at Kaseya Center.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
6 Apr. 2025
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That was a slightly steeper decline than the one reported in a preliminary reading earlier this month.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
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Rescue crews found the hikers along a steep cliff edge in the Big Flat Area, about 10 miles north of an area known as Shelter Cove, according to a news release from U.S. Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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Other pricey items included designer clothes and tech gadgets.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2025
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Once a niche interface for Apple MacBook Pros and pricey external SSDs, Thunderbolt has slowly morphed into a data transfer method for the masses.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
8 Apr. 2025
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