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as in cheap
costing little
throughout the trip we ate at bargain-basement restaurants in order to save money
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as in inferior
of low quality
bargain-basement shoes that fell apart after a week
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Recent Examples of bargain-basement
Fox paid all of $485 million for the rights to cover this year’s World Cup, a bargain-basement buy-in necessitated by FIFA’s insistence on staging the 2022 event in Qatar, a place where the summer temperatures regularly reach 106 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
24 June 2026
Where both wanted their touches on the club, neither decided that going bargain-basement shopping was the best route to do business.
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Maury Brown,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
Owned by Robert Lehmann and his wife, Verna; trained by Don Combs; and ridden by Mike Manganello, the son of Bold Commander and the broodmare Dust Storm was a bargain-basement $6,500 acquisition at the September 1968 Keeneland yearling sale.
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Neil Milbert,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
Perhaps owners harbor some wishful thinking about bargain-basement rates.
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Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
11 Mar. 2026
Soon, the proud agricultural families are forced to migrate and sell their land at bargain-basement prices.
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Alissa Simon,
Variety,
4 Feb. 2026
These were more like bargain-basement metal plates that filled a portion of his mouth.
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Jeff Pearlman,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
Not too long ago, Western markets were subtly dismissing Chinese cars for coming off as bargain-basement alternatives.
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New Atlas,
19 Sep. 2025
Instead, first Anna and Tess and then Harper and Lily land at the table of bargain-basement psychic Madame Jen (Vanessa Bayer, working hard for little dividend), who surprises even herself by intuiting that the older Colemans’ lifelines have intersected before.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Aug. 2025
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
24 June 2026
Where both wanted their touches on the club, neither decided that going bargain-basement shopping was the best route to do business.
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Maury Brown,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
Owned by Robert Lehmann and his wife, Verna; trained by Don Combs; and ridden by Mike Manganello, the son of Bold Commander and the broodmare Dust Storm was a bargain-basement $6,500 acquisition at the September 1968 Keeneland yearling sale.
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Neil Milbert,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
Perhaps owners harbor some wishful thinking about bargain-basement rates.
—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
11 Mar. 2026
Soon, the proud agricultural families are forced to migrate and sell their land at bargain-basement prices.
—
Alissa Simon,
Variety,
4 Feb. 2026
These were more like bargain-basement metal plates that filled a portion of his mouth.
—
Jeff Pearlman,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
Not too long ago, Western markets were subtly dismissing Chinese cars for coming off as bargain-basement alternatives.
—
New Atlas,
19 Sep. 2025
Instead, first Anna and Tess and then Harper and Lily land at the table of bargain-basement psychic Madame Jen (Vanessa Bayer, working hard for little dividend), who surprises even herself by intuiting that the older Colemans’ lifelines have intersected before.
—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bargain-basement
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Microchips are relatively cheap and are required for every pet in Los Angeles County over 4 months old.
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Prove Your Claims With Evidence In a market flooded with AI capabilities, claims are cheap, and every launch sounds the same.
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More broadly, the idea that White players are inherently inferior no longer matches reality.
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This is because Austria would have remained on three points but with an inferior goal difference to Iran in the third-place standings (minus one to zero).
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To prove religious discrimination in the workplace, a party needs to prove disparate treatment or that the employer failed to make reasonable accommodations for someone trying to practice their religious beliefs.
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Use earphones for music and movies and keep conversations at a reasonable volume.
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Because of that, these hands suffer from high production costs, poor durability against impacts, short operational lifespans, and there are no existing solutions that engineers can readily draw upon, Wang added.
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The extreme heat can also affect people who are physically ill, especially those with heart disease or high blood pressure, or who take certain medications, such as for depression, insomnia, or poor circulation.
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This technology is operational, scalable, inexpensive and evolving faster than most security institutions can adapt.
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Other items in the store run from the inexpensive — like $5 collectible stickers and magnets — to the more lavish, such as official FIFA soccer balls for $200 and miniature replicas of the World Cup trophy for $250.
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Thank you to everyone who read or contributed to this column over the years, who reached out to me with story ideas or tips, or complimented my terrible artwork.
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Visitors will see his Rough Riders uniform; the 1884 diary grieving his terrible loss; and the eyeglasses case, speech and shirt from the 1912 assassination attempt against him.
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People love Dinnerly meal kit deliveries because the brand offers affordable, easy-to-cook meals that fit any budget.
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But in the early 2020s, affordable, yet still sophisticated, Chinese cars—particularly electric vehicles—began to win over Chinese drivers.
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That if you were deemed, as an enslaved person, if you were deemed troublesome or in some way unwanted, you would literally be sold down the river from the more northern states to the deeper south where you would potentially be treated even worse.
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Offer Real Value, Not Leftovers Most product bundles fail not because the idea is bad but because the execution misses what consumers actually want.
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“Bargain-basement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bargain-basement. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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