economically

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Recent Examples of economically Utilities need confidence that loads requesting hundreds of megawatts of capacity will actually materialize and remain economically viable. Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 The study, published on May 31, highlights an ongoing trend toward wildfires becoming increasingly extreme, costly, and disastrous — both economically and in lives lost. Doyle Rice, USA Today, 31 May 2026 And while cinematically the evidence may not yet be persuasive, with a young generation listening to its own instincts and economically jolting a sclerotic system, the parallel feels bang-on. Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 31 May 2026 Haiti continues to stand before far larger powers — culturally, economically, politically — without retreating. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 30 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for economically
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Adverb
  • General Electric was nearly felled the same year by its captive finance arm, which borrowed cheaply against its industrial parent’s rating.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 June 2026
  • The service was also facing the retirement of older, larger ships and was looking for ways to maintain its fleet size with smaller surface combatants that could be built more quickly and cheaply than bigger vessels, the report said.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
Adverb
  • Their front office scoffs at prospect rankings, where the Angels rate poorly.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
  • Authorities allege the operation was unsafe and poorly managed.
    Abby Dodge, CBS News, 4 June 2026
Adverb
  • To this new arena of few big, let alone original, hits; to a place where expensive corporatized storytelling could hold no candle to the quick-turn, inexpensively made short videos young people watched or the quick-turn, inexpensively made long podcasts older people listened to.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Second, California doesn’t build anything inexpensively and efficiently.
    Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The family lived frugally, Ferguson said, since Good’s partner sold a company and didn’t work as Good attended graduate school online.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Perdue has lived a double life—having access to immense privilege and money from two business empires, while holding down a regular job and living frugally.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Ciber’s unit has five such machines, used sparingly, and is preparing another, faster robot, capable of covering 10 miles an hour, to carry Kalashnikov small arms into battle.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
  • Baking soda can sweeten tomatoes and deter pests, but must be used sparingly to avoid harming plants.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 30 May 2026
Adverb
  • Limón would like to see the state stop subsidizing corporations who pay so meagerly that their employees qualify for Medi-Cal.
    Anita Chabria, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
  • When opportunities arise, whether lowly paid or not, we’re often left with no other choice than to take the role that pays meagerly.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 1 Sep. 2025

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“Economically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/economically. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.

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