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Recent Examples of unaffordable
That’s because Mexican manufacturing prevents the cheapest car in the U.S. from being unaffordable or raspberries from being $50 dollars a pound in the winter.
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Alex González Ormerod, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
Bellinger's salary is not unaffordable for MLB's big-spending teams.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Although surging national apartment supply helped soften pandemic rent increases, prices remain unaffordable for many.
—Sami Sparber, Axios, 12 Oct. 2024
Their objective is to drive up the costs of extracting, refining, distributing, and using oil, natural gas, and coal to the point that electric bills are unaffordable and the economics of investing in the industry no longer make sense.
—Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Alex González Ormerod, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
Bellinger's salary is not unaffordable for MLB's big-spending teams.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Although surging national apartment supply helped soften pandemic rent increases, prices remain unaffordable for many.
—Sami Sparber, Axios, 12 Oct. 2024
Their objective is to drive up the costs of extracting, refining, distributing, and using oil, natural gas, and coal to the point that electric bills are unaffordable and the economics of investing in the industry no longer make sense.
—Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaffordable
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Holiday travel usually means crowded airports, clogged roadways and exorbitant prices.Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024
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The mayor’s office wants to hike the exorbitant existing rate to 11%, exceeding even the absurdly high 10.25% sales tax ordinary Chicagoans pay on most purchases.The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2024
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Even then, the price is likely to be prohibitive for many.Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Typically, the price tag for the tax cuts would be prohibitive.Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
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The results have been a large increase in energy costs for households and industry, driven by levies to subsidise uneconomic generation, and rising volatility in electricity markets accompanied by a higher risk of power outages in future.Gordon Hughes, National Review, 13 May 2024
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Car-makers have warned that U.K. electric-vehicle manufacturing may become uneconomic under the existing U.K.-EU trade deal, which from 2024 requires 45% of the value of EVs to come from the U.K. or EU to avoid tariffs.WSJ, WSJ, 2 June 2023
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Left in the dust ‘Cruise’ driverless robot taxis are seen at a parking lot as California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) revokes its self-driving car permit and citing ‘unreasonable risk to public safety’ in San Francisco, California, USA on October 24, 2023.Kristian Burt, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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To determine whether those amounts posed an unreasonable risk of harm, the agency compared them to a specific benchmark — the highest concentration of formaldehyde measured by government monitors in outdoor air between 2015 and 2020.Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
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The cost was rumored to be around $1.5 billion, making Atlantis The Royal one of the most expensive hotels ever built.Joe Niehaus, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2024
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Under the innovative deal, led by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Barbados replaced some of its most expensive sovereign debt with a lower cost loan.Amy Feldman, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Rather than sticking with costly legacy IT infrastructure, teams can opt for innovation.Tal Dagan, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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As a result, 24,000 machines were unceremoniously abandoned, leaving the individual retailers responsible for the costly removal process.Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 13 Dec. 2024
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Hike along the Beagle Channel on the Senda Costera, or push yourself on the steep Cerro Guanaco Trail for awe-inspiring views of mountains plunging into icy waters.Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2024
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other government ministers met with provincial premiers to discuss Trump's pledge to impose steep tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports after he is sworn in as president in January.Nia Williams and Ismail Shakil, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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Overlanding and off-roading are no longer hobbies of extreme thrill seekers with more Americans traversing local trails and taking their pricey sport utility vehicles and trucks with them.Morgan Korn, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
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And now here was this burgeoning industry of pricey get-over-him getaways and move-on medicines.Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Unaffordable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaffordable. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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