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An absolutely massive ranch just an hour from Salt Lake City could become one of the most expensive properties ever sold in Utah. Sheep Creek Canyon Ranch in Morgan County, all 7,000-plus acres of it, has just hit the market for an incredible $72.5 million.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
25 June 2025 -
Conversely, the league’s second-most expensive team in terms of salary, Toronto FC ($34,146,193) is second-worst in the Eastern Conference and third-worst in the league in terms of points (just 13 in 17 games).—
Braidon Nourse,
Denver Post,
25 June 2025
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Joseph also notes allegations circulating on social networks and in local press reports about the exorbitant amount council members are being paid, along with their wives.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
18 June 2025
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Scott Stringer Stringer has promised to hire 3,000 more cops, deploying more officers to the subway and using reforms to reduce exorbitant overtime costs.—
Téa Kvetenadze,
New York Daily News,
17 June 2025
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Transit officials have said the full Silver Line is unaffordable with the 40% cap.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
23 June 2025
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In a Tight Spot The home insurance crisis that unfolded in Florida over the past few years has left many homeowners struggling to find coverage, whether because the policies on the market are unaffordable or because there are no options available at all.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 June 2025
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Prepare for the world’s biggest bounce house to be inflated in the Sacramento area this weekend.—
Marcus D. Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
24 Mar. 2025
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Its workers routinely inflated the results to scare their bosses.—
Fred Weir,
The Christian Science Monitor,
21 Mar. 2025
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China exports heavily to U.S. markets, and Trump’s tariffs on China—which rose to a prohibitive 145% before being temporarily lowered to 30%—left many Chinese and American businesses in a state of uncertainty.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
27 June 2025
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While a growing number of listings sit idle in the United States' housing market, as buyers are kept on the sidelines by sky-high prices and prohibitive borrowing costs, multimillion-dollar homes are still going under contract in some of the most expensive parts of the country.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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The bill — signed in Clearwater on the eve of the four-year anniversary of the collapse of the Champlain Towers South — doesn’t include any new money to help finance pricey and mandatory repairs.—
Alexandra Glorioso,
Miami Herald,
23 June 2025
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Although the company could reduce costs by up to 10% if the manufacturing were scaled out to hundreds of thousands of units, the resulting phone would still be pricey.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
23 June 2025
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The rapidly dropping cost of inference means that use cases that are uneconomic today may not be six to 12 months in the future.—
Jeffrey Hammond,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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High level indicators of risk include goods being received from unusually complex or apparently uneconomic supply routes, for example, regular supplies of UK produced goods that have been exported from the UK and then re-imported.—
Mark Littler,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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Solomon, 47, of Fairburn, was arraigned in federal court on June 17 on charges of using unreasonable force and obstructing justice, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia said in a news release.—
Julia Marnin,
Miami Herald,
18 June 2025
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California Department of Education officials in 2018 found that school staff used unreasonable and unnecessary force in restraining Max.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
17 June 2025
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“Overpriced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overpriced. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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