at the cost of
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: by giving up or hurting (something else)
She completed the project on time but at the cost of her health.
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Streaming platforms optimize autoplay at the cost of attention span.
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Jason Snyder, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
So far, only government space agencies from the United States and Japan have brought minuscule samples from asteroids back to Earth at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 25 Feb. 2025
The first season ended with Joel making the shocking decision to massacre a group of Fireflies, who planned to use Elle's immunity to make a cure for the infection but at the cost of her life.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
Bakhmut is a Ukrainian town whose ruins Wagner captured in 2023 after a nine-month assault at the cost of tens of thousands of casualties.
—Ekaterina Bodyagina Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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Jason Snyder, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
So far, only government space agencies from the United States and Japan have brought minuscule samples from asteroids back to Earth at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 25 Feb. 2025
The first season ended with Joel making the shocking decision to massacre a group of Fireflies, who planned to use Elle's immunity to make a cure for the infection but at the cost of her life.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
Bakhmut is a Ukrainian town whose ruins Wagner captured in 2023 after a nine-month assault at the cost of tens of thousands of casualties.
—Ekaterina Bodyagina Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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