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• This isn’t the first prank to go viral at the expense of young kids.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 25 Aug. 2023
• The past is important, but not at the expense of the present.
  — Marni Jameson, Oc Register, 28 May 2025
• Which seems to come mostly at the expense of her young son.
  — Lauren Wissot, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2024
• Even if all of that comes at the expense of our health or our pocket books.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
• How much money does big money need at the expense of the rest of us?
  — Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024
• Hotel staff have to stay on the job, sometimes at the expense of their own needs.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• And the current Dodgers want to win every game, but not at the expense of long-range goals.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
• All Sheryl Crow wants to do is have some fun, but not at the expense of her teenage sons!
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
• But White said this came at the expense of those with the lower incomes who needed it the most.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• But are workers footing the bill at the expense of their health and well-being?
  — Sunny Hubler, Charlotte Observer, 9 June 2025
• The award show was filled with praise and lighthearted jokes at the expense of Sandler.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2023
• This has been achieved at the expense of human rights, critics say.
  — Eduardo Gamarra, The Conversation, 12 Jan. 2024
• The pursuit of short-term profit at the expense of the scene’s long-term health is self-defeating.
  — Andrew Bird, Baltimore Sun, 28 Dec. 2024
• But its gains have come in tiny increments at the expense of thousands of lives.
  — Susannah George and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2023
• This all may seem like a lark, a silly bit of fun at the expense of astronomy.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 June 2024
• While rear passenger space is great, this hasn’t been achieved at the expense of rear cargo space.
  — James Morris, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
• Golden now hopes to make the biggest step of his career at the expense of one of his mentors and two of his closest friends in the game.
  — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2025
• Apart from one good joke at the expense of Christopher Columbus, the show’s politics are not overt.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• That’s often at the expense of sharing much about herself.
  — Angela Haupt, TIME, 31 Dec. 2024
• Maybe Fivio and Kodak wish to be the Black faces of that cohort, at the expense of millions of people who look like them.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
• Like all the great comic actors, Sheryl Lee Ralph will do just about anything for a laugh… even at the expense of her health.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 4 June 2025
• You’re not required to support someone else’s life at the expense of your own, Libra.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2024
• You’re not required to support someone else’s life at the expense of your own, Libra.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2024
• But rush to a conclusion at the expense of Japan’s economy?
  — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
• Beauty’s share price for its own benefit and at the expense of all other E.l.f.
  — Kathryn Hopkins, WWD, 21 Nov. 2024
• That's not at the expense of the Pops series: The orchestra plans to announce a robust Pops schedule in the near future.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2024
• But it is not meant and doesn't have to be at the expense of having flexibility.
  — Nik Popli / Aspen, TIME, 30 June 2024
• Some countries are arguing that law lies too far in the bears’ favor at the expense of human lives.
  — Billy Stockwell, CNN, 30 Mar. 2024
• The speaker’s prediction may turn out to be right; those savings are coming entirely at the expense of young workers who took jobs after the tier system was established.
  — Jennifer Hochschild, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
• Otherwise, the film strives to convey the gravity of its material by locking onto a dead-serious vibe, at the expense of character development.
  — Chris Deville, The Atlantic, 6 July 2025