How to Use put a price on in a Sentence
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And with the postgrad job market as cutthroat as ever, who can put a price on that?
—Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 16 June 2023
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Carbon markets are a way to put a price on the real estate that exists above our heads.
—Pawan Mehra, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
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However, his actions lead the greedy Prince John to put a price on his head.
—Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 18 Jan. 2023
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California was also the first state to put a price on carbon with a state cap & trade program.
—Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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Those tax credits will work differently from past efforts to put a price on carbon.
—Steven Mufson, Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2021
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The companies did not put a price on the deal in an announcement Sunday.
—Washington Post, 12 July 2020
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Police haven’t yet put a price on the amount of items taken or the damage done to the storage facility.
—Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2021
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Sure, a wrestling team may play a part in a school spirit, but if forced to put a price on it, would the average college be willing to pay it?
—Bryan Walsh, Vox, 29 May 2024
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While no one has ever tried to put a price on an asteroid, critical metals get reappraised by markets every day.
—WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
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The Nike Training Club app has fantastic classes and doesn’t put a price on health and fitness.
—Olivia Lipski, Good Housekeeping, 25 July 2022
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And for now, one of the men the United States once put a price on is still sitting at the negotiating table.
—Lilia Luciano, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
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But when faced with the endless unknown of fertility treatment, many are forced to put a price on their theoretical child.
—Kate Willsky, ELLE, 30 Apr. 2022
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European governments have taken this approach and put a price on carbon emissions for some major industries.
—James MacKintosh, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
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Pet insurance takes some of the decision-making pressure off pet owners – and that’s hard to put a price on, particularly when time is of the essence.
—Terry Ward, USA Today, 1 Dec. 2025
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The program is one of the first in the United States to put a price on emitting carbon—as of September, about $30 per ton.
—Byhannah Richter, science.org, 1 Nov. 2024
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In addition to phasing out support for fossil fuels, countries will also need to put a price on carbon emissions and disclose their climate risks, the report said.
—Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2021
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Most economists agree that the single most effective policy to spur a transition to cleaner forms of energy is to put a price on carbon emissions.
—Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 21 Oct. 2020
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There is little hope of passing a carbon tax or other mechanism to put a price on greenhouse gas pollution, which would push cost-conscious corporations to emit less.
—Lisa Friedman, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Jan. 2021
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But the most far-reaching thing governments can do is to put a price on carbon to discourage the use of hydrocarbons, Souki continues.
—Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
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Lately, it's been tough to put a price on feeling indomitable, and the confidence Lieber Gustav 14 gives me is worth every penny.
—Taylore Glynn, Marie Claire, 12 Aug. 2020
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Another way to drive down costs is to put a price on fossil fuel production such as a carbon tax – one that is high enough to expedite the flow of capital into green technologies.
—Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
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One of the simplest ways to reduce carbon emissions is to put a price on them, gradually ratcheting up the price to induce conversation and emissions-free technologies.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2022
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Two of their colleagues have been murdered, bullets have been fired at their home, their children have been threatened, and local businessmen who want to use the land for cattle ranching have reportedly put a price on their heads.
—Time, 29 Oct. 2022
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At the very least, a thorny question for EU regulators is what to do about countries that have policies to curb emissions, such as clean energy standards, but don’t put a price on carbon.
—Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2021
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The tax gives credit to countries that put a price on carbon, allowing importers of goods from those countries to deduct payments made for overseas emissions from the amount owed at the EU’s borders.
—Matthew Dalton, wsj.com, 18 Apr. 2023
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Sony has an online event Thursday to show off some of the video games coming to the PS5, but Thier doesn't expect the game maker to put a price on the console.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 11 June 2020
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New Zealand on Wednesday released a draft plan to put a price on agricultural emissions in a bid to tackle one of the country’s biggest sources of greenhouse gases, belching sheep and cattle.
—Reuters, NBC News, 8 June 2022
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That business-as-usual approach could prove risky if a Biden administration prioritizes climate and Congress legislates to put a price on carbon.
—Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2020
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These environmental compliance markets put a price on carbon emissions in order to encourage widespread carbon net neutrality.
—Walter Schindler, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
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Emissions-trading systems put a price on the greenhouse gases generated by industry, increasing the cost of products with the intent of promoting efficiency and cutting emissions.
—Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 15 July 2021
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