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• This isn’t the first prank to go viral at the expense of young kids.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 25 Aug. 2023
• Which seems to come mostly at the expense of her young son.
  — Lauren Wissot, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2024
• Even if all of that comes at the expense of our health or our pocket books.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
• How much money does big money need at the expense of the rest of us?
  — Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024
• Hotel staff have to stay on the job, sometimes at the expense of their own needs.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• And the current Dodgers want to win every game, but not at the expense of long-range goals.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
• All Sheryl Crow wants to do is have some fun, but not at the expense of her teenage sons!
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
• But White said this came at the expense of those with the lower incomes who needed it the most.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• The award show was filled with praise and lighthearted jokes at the expense of Sandler.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2023
• This has been achieved at the expense of human rights, critics say.
  — Eduardo Gamarra, The Conversation, 12 Jan. 2024
• But its gains have come in tiny increments at the expense of thousands of lives.
  — Susannah George and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2023
• This all may seem like a lark, a silly bit of fun at the expense of astronomy.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 June 2024
• Apart from one good joke at the expense of Christopher Columbus, the show’s politics are not overt.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Maybe Fivio and Kodak wish to be the Black faces of that cohort, at the expense of millions of people who look like them.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
• You’re not required to support someone else’s life at the expense of your own, Libra.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2024
• That's not at the expense of the Pops series: The orchestra plans to announce a robust Pops schedule in the near future.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2024
• But it is not meant and doesn't have to be at the expense of having flexibility.
  — Nik Popli / Aspen, TIME, 30 June 2024
• Some countries are arguing that law lies too far in the bears’ favor at the expense of human lives.
  — Billy Stockwell, CNN, 30 Mar. 2024
• And critics say this helped ring the register at the expense of the American public.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 7 Dec. 2023
• Be open to new people but don’t turn it into a vigorous pursuit at the expense of all else.
  — Shon Faye, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2023
• To refuse to do so is to raise the question: Is the Postal Service attempting to save money at the expense of Americans’ lives?
  — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• Time slips back and forth in a way that constantly pulls the viewer out of their comfort zone, although never at the expense of the story.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
• If, like 60 percent of the U.S. grid, that plant used a CO2-emitting source, then the local problem may be solved, but only at the expense of a more global threat.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 July 2023
• But all that efficiency comes at the expense of something else.
  — Jon Langston, Car and Driver, 7 Mar. 2023
• But it’s made its main focus framing the issue as a power grab by politicians at the expense of voters.
  — cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
• The union is willing to open discussions about reducing the 162-game schedule, but not at the expense of players’ salaries.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• But her down-home values don’t come at the expense of excluding gay fans and the drag community.
  — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• He’s pissed off about food deserts and predatory chain restaurants and the culture that makes people crave those things at the expense of their own welfare.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2023
• Curtis’ name will surely be the selling point for many parents, who’ll get a kick out of inside jokes taken at the expense of the writers’ other credits.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Oct. 2024
• Severide takes Damon to see Benny’s medal of valor plaque and says that Benny was a great firefighter at the expense of everything else in his life.
  — Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024