How to Use cost-benefit in a Sentence

cost-benefit

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Zoom out: Pharmacies' cost-benefit decisions about which drugs to dispense go beyond Medicare, the survey shows.
    Maya Goldman, Axios, 16 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • That cost-benefit equation churned out different calculations in the 1960s.
    Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Biden reversed course by putting K. Sabeel Rahman, a Warren ally, in the job, and approving a new way for the government to calculate the cost-benefit ratio of initiatives, giving more weight to social benefits.
    Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 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

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