at the cost of
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: by giving up or hurting (something else)
She completed the project on time but at the cost of her health.
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Hyundai Motor Group acquired Boston Dynamics in 2021 at the cost of $1.1 billion.
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Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
So companies looking at the cost of what these tariffs are, but then the process around mitigating and looking at the bills of material, tracing their supply chain.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
This busy polling mechanism minimizes delays in network traffic processing at the cost of CPU power consumption.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Mar. 2025
Systemic barriers—including masculinized corporate environments with expectations to work long hours at the cost of sacrificing personal lives and family caregiving responsibilities, and board preferences to hire men by default—continue to hinder women’s progress toward equality.
—Cassidy Randall, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
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Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
So companies looking at the cost of what these tariffs are, but then the process around mitigating and looking at the bills of material, tracing their supply chain.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
This busy polling mechanism minimizes delays in network traffic processing at the cost of CPU power consumption.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Mar. 2025
Systemic barriers—including masculinized corporate environments with expectations to work long hours at the cost of sacrificing personal lives and family caregiving responsibilities, and board preferences to hire men by default—continue to hinder women’s progress toward equality.
—Cassidy Randall, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
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“At the cost of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20the%20cost%20of. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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