at the cost of
idiom
: by giving up or hurting (something else)
She completed the project on time but at the cost of her health.
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Voters understand the need for extreme caution, even at the cost of sacrificing intimacy with constituents, Palacios says.
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Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
More immediately, Ukrainian commanders say, some of the Western weapons supplied to them have failed them at the cost of lives.
—Vladyslav Golovin, New York Times, 25 May 2024
But Kinds of Kindness compels as a deranged look at our need to be loved, even at the cost of submitting to someone else’s insidious control.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
That amendment functionally tamped down residential tax bills, but at the cost of a declining tax base for some local governments and special districts.
—Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 10 May 2024
People believe false conspiracy theories for a wide range of reasons– including the fact that there are real conspiracies, like efforts by the Sackler family to profit by concealing the addictiveness of oxycontin at the cost of countless American lives.
—H. Colleen Sinclair, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2024
Affordable housing at the cost of existing tenants?
—Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
These women often struggle every day with learning the ropes of becoming a mother, often at the cost of losing their personal identity.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
And when Mitch White became available, the Giants pounced to add the 29-year-old righty at the cost of Cobb’s efforts to race back.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2024
Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
More immediately, Ukrainian commanders say, some of the Western weapons supplied to them have failed them at the cost of lives.
—Vladyslav Golovin, New York Times, 25 May 2024
But Kinds of Kindness compels as a deranged look at our need to be loved, even at the cost of submitting to someone else’s insidious control.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
That amendment functionally tamped down residential tax bills, but at the cost of a declining tax base for some local governments and special districts.
—Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 10 May 2024
People believe false conspiracy theories for a wide range of reasons– including the fact that there are real conspiracies, like efforts by the Sackler family to profit by concealing the addictiveness of oxycontin at the cost of countless American lives.
—H. Colleen Sinclair, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2024
Affordable housing at the cost of existing tenants?
—Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
These women often struggle every day with learning the ropes of becoming a mother, often at the cost of losing their personal identity.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
And when Mitch White became available, the Giants pounced to add the 29-year-old righty at the cost of Cobb’s efforts to race back.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2024
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