How to Use externality in a Sentence

externality

noun

• The before and after that comes into such stark relief, thanks to an externality like war.
  — Andy Meek, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
• This means that the best policy is to make the externality visible in prices.
  — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
• For sure, there are ways other than VAT to deal with externalities.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
• The best argument in opposition has less to do with the choice of pastime per se than with its externalities.
  — David B. McGarry, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2025
• No company’s main source of profit can be described with a straight face as a negative externality.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2018
• The livestock industry is shielded from the costs of these externalities.
  — Crystal Heath, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
• Perhaps activists could get the market to price that externality in by nudging investors to divest.
  — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2023
• The negative externalities of creating domains for these people to play in are all too real.
  — WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• From an economic point of view, R & D suffers from a severe externality in the same way that climate change does.
  — William Nordhaus, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2021
• For decades, Americans have treated their data like a cheap externality.
  — Tressie McMillan Cottom, Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2026
• And there are some really interesting efforts to look at this, what's called a fiscal externality.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2023
• Even if pricing the negative carbon externality is key, the path to getting there might be via driving down the price of alternatives.
  — Gernot Wagner, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
• And all of them, from Facebook Inc’s perspective, would be mere externalities in its drive for attention.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
• But to me what’s actually unfair is all the externalities created by the shortage of parking.
  — Curbed, 8 May 2023
• This is where the administration doesn’t do a good job taking externalities into account.
  — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Much of the opposition comes from residents worried about noise, light and other externalities.
  — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 19 May 2026
• So again, a lot of externalities associated with free parking.
  — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 14 June 2023
• One way to deal with negative externalities is to impose a tax on the activity equivalent to those external costs.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
• Climate change, in many ways, is the ultimate negative externality.
  — Gernot Wagner, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• Perhaps one of the most significant cases of externalities is the extensive use of the military draft.
  — David R. Henderson, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2019
• An abundance of research now shows that oversized cars increase the risk of injury or death among other road users, a negative externality akin to secondhand smoke.
  — David Zipper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
• This externality alone could wipe out a range of the benefits that bitcoin advocates imagine could result from the use of cryptocurrencies.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2018
• Such a tax would dissuade people from burning fossil fuels by taxing them for the damage those emissions cause – the negative externality.
  — Jim Krane, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2022
• But there is an additional benefit to the rest of us – the positive externality – from the delivery.
  — Leigh Osofsky, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2020
• If these externalities were fully priced into the cost of gasoline, there would likely be widespread political upheaval.
  — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
• This analysis turns that sort of calculation on its head and gives us a clearer picture of what getting rid of those externalities provides to society.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 May 2024
• This focus on growth at all costs has led to negative externalities that the original founders of these companies either didn’t care about, or at least didn’t properly plan for.
  — Sonny Tai, Quartz at Work, 2 Mar. 2020
• But those events tend to be intrinsic to business rather than externalities such as White House maneuvers or geopolitics.
  — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
• Of course, there will be negative externalities associated with this enormous change coming up.
  — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026
• These examples signal a broader shift in how risk can be managed, and how ecosystems are beginning to be treated not as externalities, but as investable risk buffers.
  — Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025