How to Use cost-benefit in a Sentence

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• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Many within the Army Corps are aware that its cost-benefit analysis is doing a poor job of ensuring that all Americans, no matter their race or income, are protected from the escalating flood threats of a warming planet.
  — Geoff Dembicki, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
• In our era of scarce resources, wrenching cycles of flood and drought and painful cost-benefit calculations, every argument and counterargument for flooding the valley echoes even louder.
  — Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• Murdoch went along with their misconception, until his cost-benefit calculation moved against them.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• The cost-benefit equation has been altered, however, by pandemic-era supply chain disruptions.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• But there’s no denying that his cold-eyed cost-benefit analysis was usually grounded in facts, however inconvenient.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 17 July 2023
• But cost-benefit scenarios presented to ACIP showed that universal vaccination was worth the cost under most scenarios.
  — Jennifer Beam Dowd, STAT, 13 Oct. 2023
• Each of these additions had to be carefully considered in a cost-benefit analysis conducted by the Unicode subcommittee, which has strict guidelines for the creation of new emoji characters.
  — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 2 Jan. 2024
• Friend faulted the cost-benefit analysis system that Army Corps of Engineers’ historically has used as part of its prioritizing process.
  — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
• The cost-benefit ratio of computer vision is most favorable in segments like retail, transportation and warehousing, all areas where Walmart Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. are prominent.
  — Saritha Rai, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2024
• My colleague Susanne Rust reports that federal officials knew for decades the levee was likely to fail — but never paid to fix it because protecting the low-income community didn’t pencil out in a cost-benefit analysis.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• In 1983, Brewster conducted the first cost-benefit analysis of a similar program in California.
  — Avani Kalra, ajc, 21 July 2023
• The report recommends that city officials consider doing a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether this would save money and potentially how much.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2023
• The team will estimate the amount and type of recyclable waste dumped throughout Arizona, the economic impact that recycling could have, and the cost-benefit of operating recycling programs depending on communities’ size and finances.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• Helen undertakes this kind of number-running as her relationship frays, attempting a cost-benefit analysis of remaining with Hew.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024