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Recent Examples of cheapish
There’s the cheapish and labor-intensive cooking at home and stretching leftovers, or the takeout/eating out experience that’s increasingly expensive.
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Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2026
Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cheapish
Adjective
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The problem with this inexpensive, multifunctional tool?—
Jennifer Zyman,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
28 Apr. 2026
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Turn a Plain Candle Into a Personalized Keepsake Start with an inexpensive plain candle and transform it with a few finishing touches.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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But by tweaking this archetype again and again, Chan transforms a cheap gimmick into a complex ecosystem of life-forms.—
Dawn Chan,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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The cheapest available seat was listed at $237 as of Friday evening.—
Annie Costabile,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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And with each new version, the older versions get more affordable so many more anglers will be able to purchase it.—
Mike McFeely,
Twin Cities,
24 Apr. 2026
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The company is in 13 Idaho markets, and has been able to build homes affordable to people making roughly 80% of AMI or below in Caldwell, Nampa, Kuna and Middleton, according to Hayden spokesperson Megan Langer.—
Mark Dee,
Idaho Statesman,
23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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His performances haven’t come against low-end competition.—
Jack Murray,
Boston Herald,
26 Apr. 2026
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The Interstate 35 corridor, including San Antonio, New Braunfels, San Marcos and Austin, has been placed under a low-end level 1 of 5 risk of severe thunderstorms.—
Anthony Franze,
San Antonio Express-News,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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With a reasonable chance that both sides win all their remaining games, the size of each victory matters.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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Although executors may be paid reasonable compensation—often up to 5% of the estate’s value—you aren’t required to accept the role.—
Nancy Ashburn,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Lamont, a fiscal moderate, has been reluctant to support spending that would exceed the cap on a recurring basis and would prefer legislators pay for extra town aid by finding offsetting cuts elsewhere in the budget.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
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Kempthorne, a moderate Republican, was elected mayor of Boise in 1985 at age 34, and he was credited with revitalizing the downtown by securing an agreement to build a convention center and promoting other development.—
Gene Johnson,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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That’s before Morgan steals a necklace from a chintzy gift shop run by a Turkish gangster named Yusuf, who proceeds to kidnap the pair, intimidate them at gunpoint, and threaten their family, forcing them to perform an array of odd jobs to make up for the petty theft.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2026
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The word chintzy, meaning cheap or gaudy, first appears in a letter written by the English Victorian novelist George Eliot to her sister in 1851.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The very top floor seemed to be more for students, offering cheapo meals to undergrads with empty pockets — beans on toast, chips on toast, that sort of thing.—
Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
16 Mar. 2026
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Here are the 10 cheapo air trips for 2026, on average, for round-trip economy fares.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Cheapish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheapish. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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