at a cost
idiom
: by giving up something else
He had achieved fame, but at a cost; he'd lost many friends and no longer talked to anyone in his family.
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More than a year after the 43-year-old shopping center closed, the vast majority now owned by the village of West Dundee has been taken down at a cost of about $4 million.
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Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
Built outside the capital Amman, at a cost of €30 million ($35 million), the facility features two 16,000-square-foot soundstages and is currently home to the Arab-language version of The Voice, produced by MBC Group.
—Mathew Scott, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
That price was largely on par with what Fox sought a year earlier, and advertisers moved quickly to snap up inventory at a cost that hadn’t shot up despite tight demand.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Approved by voters hoodwinked by false cost estimates, the project was supposed to be operable by 2020 at a cost of $33 billion.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
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Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
Built outside the capital Amman, at a cost of €30 million ($35 million), the facility features two 16,000-square-foot soundstages and is currently home to the Arab-language version of The Voice, produced by MBC Group.
—Mathew Scott, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
That price was largely on par with what Fox sought a year earlier, and advertisers moved quickly to snap up inventory at a cost that hadn’t shot up despite tight demand.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Approved by voters hoodwinked by false cost estimates, the project was supposed to be operable by 2020 at a cost of $33 billion.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
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