at the cost of
idiom
: by giving up or hurting (something else)
She completed the project on time but at the cost of her health.
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Trump’s plan delighted the Israeli right wing at the cost of additionally compromising the Jewish state.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2025
Moscow is slowly taking territory at the cost of high casualties along the 600-mile (1,000-kilometer) front line in eastern Ukraine and launching intense barrages at Ukraine’s energy system, seeking to deprive Ukrainians of heat and light in the depths of winter.
—Fox News, 16 Jan. 2025
Moscow is slowly taking territory at the cost of high casualties along the 600-mile front line in eastern Ukraine and launching intense barrages at Ukraine’s energy system, seeking to deprive its people of heat and light in the depths of winter.
—Jill Lawless, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
On June 5, 1966, during the Vietnam War, Army Captain Hugh R. Nelson Jr. of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, rescued two specialists from the wreckage of a helicopter crash, shielding one of them from enemy gunfire at the cost of his own life.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2025
Moscow is slowly taking territory at the cost of high casualties along the 600-mile (1,000-kilometer) front line in eastern Ukraine and launching intense barrages at Ukraine’s energy system, seeking to deprive Ukrainians of heat and light in the depths of winter.
—Fox News, 16 Jan. 2025
Moscow is slowly taking territory at the cost of high casualties along the 600-mile front line in eastern Ukraine and launching intense barrages at Ukraine’s energy system, seeking to deprive its people of heat and light in the depths of winter.
—Jill Lawless, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
On June 5, 1966, during the Vietnam War, Army Captain Hugh R. Nelson Jr. of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, rescued two specialists from the wreckage of a helicopter crash, shielding one of them from enemy gunfire at the cost of his own life.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
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