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Recent Examples of bargain-basement At the same time, sellers have been reluctant to give up bargain-basement mortgage rates obtained before the Federal Reserve started raising borrowing costs in the winter of 2022 to control inflation. Jeff Collins, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024 After Disney+ launched in 2019 at a bargain-basement price, the company put its efforts into producing dozens of shows specifically for the streamer, in an attempt to build subscriber interest and loyalty. Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024 Yet precisely because of the genre’s typically bargain-basement production costs, its ultrazealous fandom, and a powerful word-of-mouth pass-along arguably unmatched throughout cinema, horror can seem at risk of becoming a victim of its own success. Chris Lee, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024 At the same time, sellers have been reluctant to give up bargain-basement mortgage rates obtained before the Federal Reserve started raising borrowing costs in the winter of 2022 to control inflation. Jeff Collins, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024 Thanks for the high-quality defensive lineman — among the scarcest resources in football — for the bargain-basement price. Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2024 The company, which runs more than 1,300 stores across 48 states, is one of the country’s largest closeout retailers and specializes in offering bargain-basement pricing on all things home. Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2024 The East Side, the Star’s examination shows, is instead an intricate patchwork of local and outside ownership where thousands of homes and parcels in recent years have been picked up at bargain-basement prices by individuals, small investors and billion-dollar private equity firms. Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024 On that page were other fancy bikes available for purchase at bargain-basement prices, including one from Santa Clara, another from San Jose, and a rare white mountain bike from the Ugandan brand Gorilla. Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bargain-basement
Adjective
  • Introductory pricing: Spectrum’s most affordable plan is much cheaper than AT&T's, at$30 a month compared to AT&T’s $55 a month for 100 and 300 Mbps download speeds,respectively.
    Kara McGinley, USA Today, 26 June 2025
  • These Golden Hour Savings deals bring these loafers’ price tag down to as low as $52, which is much cheaper than most leather (or vegan leather) loafers.
    Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Told that Indigenous people were evolutionarily inferior to white Europeans and Americans, visitors accepted the idea that colonialist progress would soon condemn these groups to extinction.
    Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025
  • The Pacers are just way more inferior and the Thunder got stagnant all of a sudden.
    Fred Katz, New York Times, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • Recent verdicts have far exceeded historical benchmarks, and without reasonable limits, runaway jury awards threaten the city’s ability to fund essential services.
    Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
  • Conrad is a 6-3 defenseman who can skate and has shown reasonable offense in the Q.
    Corey Pronman, New York Times, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Rarely great, and consistently cringey in that NHL way we’re used to by now, but rarely terrible.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • Even the ones that aren’t strictly evil in the biblical sense are often prone to doing terrible things.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • When considering the company's substantial growth and impressive adjusted profitability, its current valuation appears inexpensive.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • During the post–Cold War era, the United States achieved unprecedented dominance, and maintaining it was relatively easy and inexpensive.
    KORI SCHAKE, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • Orlik, who was seventy-seven, was in poor health and desperate to get his pictures back.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 17 June 2025
  • Despite being poor, India’s democracy thrived as its leaders managed the country’s political fortunes through open competition.
    ASHLEY J. TELLIS, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • By clearly showing customers how their deposits fund beneficial projects like affordable housing and renewable energy, banks demonstrate that money can create positive change.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • According to Adams, 500,000 new jobs have been created and affordable housing has been expanded by turning unused buildings into homes.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • In two particularly egregious examples involving baby products described to CNBC, Amazon sent customers used diapers and a chiller with someone else’s rotten breastmilk inside.
    Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 21 June 2025
  • The smell won’t be as sweet, maybe a little rotten.
    Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 21 June 2025

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“Bargain-basement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bargain-basement. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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