How to Use cost-benefit in a Sentence
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One way to assess that is to look at an economist’s tool set called a cost-benefit analysis.
— Anita Alves Pena, The Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2024 -
In essence, there’s a cost-benefit analysis companies like Deere must perform that goes beyond number-crunching.
— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024 -
That cost-benefit equation churned out different calculations in the 1960s.
— Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024 -
The higher number flips the cost-benefit equation in favor of requiring trucks to have side guards.
— A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 13 June 2023 -
Grace is not bemoaning the state of the modern game as much as appraising the shift in its cost-benefit analysis.
— Zach Buchanan, New York Times, 28 July 2023 -
The cost-benefit analysis may explain why Ukraine hasn’t made a full-throated push for Australia’s FA-18s … yet, that is.
— Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2023 -
The structures that the United States has for making those decisions tend to use cost-benefit analyses.
— Benji Jones, Vox, 19 June 2024 -
So where the cost-benefit analysis doesn’t add up, grocery stores often don’t open.
— Luke Fountain, Charlotte Observer, 13 June 2024 -
The video shows Kennedy questioning Spellmon about costs and cost-benefit analyses of flood control projects.
— USA TODAY, 9 May 2023 -
During the interview, Quirk talked about the expense of the tunnel, low ridership on the train, and the need for a cost-benefit analysis before the project proceeds.
— Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2023 -
The project has been decades in the making, but the state audit said the agency should have conducted a cost-benefit analysis before board approval.
— Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024 -
Do not look at life purely from a cost-benefit analysis standpoint.
— Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2024 -
But a thorough cost-benefit analysis does not, in fact, suggest that the rewards have been significant—or that the costs to Ukraine will remain low.
— Sergey Vakulenko, Foreign Affairs, 25 June 2024 -
The state resolved last year to conduct an in-depth, cost-benefit analysis of its data center industry and tax break.
— Lulu Ramadan, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2024 -
This has less to do with the ongoing actors strike in the U.S. and more with the cost-benefit analysis of individual channels and platforms.
— Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2023 -
The cost-benefit equation doesn’t account for moral hazard, either.
— Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023 -
The abatement is valued at roughly $1.2 million, according to a cost-benefit analysis conducted to study the impact on the tax rolls.
— Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024 -
When asked this very question at his press conference, Buttigieg mentioned an obscure cost-benefit requirement that Congress imposed on the brake rule in 2015.
— Reid Frazier, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023 -
And as our heroes attempt to balance the books on this very risky business venture, the series is running its own kind of cost-benefit analysis about the arts — culinary or otherwise.
— Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023 -
Made of material that is invisible to radar, according to Ukrainian outlet Pravda, the drones help to even out the cost-benefit imbalance of the war.
— Peter Aitken, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2024 -
So far, officials have demurred, saying the cost-benefit analysis doesn’t work because of Rodanthe’s small tax base and the fact that the erosion is so relentless.
— Brady Dennis, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2023 -
The latter could influence cost-benefit analyses of companies looking to open shop in Arizona.
— Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 8 Feb. 2024 -
Any delay in the progression of Alzheimer's is priceless for patients – and for their families, whose interests did not feature in Nice's cost-benefit analysis.
— The Week Uk, theweek, 31 Aug. 2024 -
In an effort to change his cost-benefit calculus, Washington has tried to find the sweet spot between supporting Ukraine and punishing Russia on the one hand, and reducing the risks of escalation on the other.
— Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2024 -
In a few cities, cost-benefit analyses showed returning to nature was cheaper than maintaining concrete culverts.
— Jim Morrison, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023 -
The cost-benefit ratio of desulfurization technologies was key to solving acid rain.
— Hannah Ritchie, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023 -
So are decision matrices, pros and cons lists, and cost-benefit analyses that can help structure your thinking and bring a more rational perspective to your decisions.
— Bryce Hoffman, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024 -
The proposal scored low among other applications for rescue plan money based on the cost-benefit analysis, Dotson said.
— Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2023 -
What gets protected in communities — and how that is done — is determined through a cost-benefit analysis, by the Corps, which focuses on property values.
— Jim Morrison, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023 -
For an example of this kind of cost-benefit analysis, consider the policy debate over whether children are better off being raised by two married parents.
— Marcia Zug, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
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