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View gallery - 7 images VW added a mild refresh to the Jetta to update its looks a bit, but has otherwise not messed with the car’s basic formula of getting you there on the cheap.
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New Atlas, 14 Nov. 2025
Investors often come into distressed real-estate markets and transform them, buying up land on the cheap and flipping residential homes into rental units.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
If successful, EscaPADE could be the first bright spot in NASA’s campaign to conduct planetary science on the cheap.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
To beat back the rebels, President Omar al-Bashir licensed a local militia to wage a counterinsurgency on the cheap.
—Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2025
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New Atlas, 14 Nov. 2025
Investors often come into distressed real-estate markets and transform them, buying up land on the cheap and flipping residential homes into rental units.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
If successful, EscaPADE could be the first bright spot in NASA’s campaign to conduct planetary science on the cheap.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
To beat back the rebels, President Omar al-Bashir licensed a local militia to wage a counterinsurgency on the cheap.
—Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2025
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“On the cheap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20the%20cheap. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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