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as in expense
the loss or penalty involved in achieving a goal I finished the project, but the price was losing a night's sleep

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as in reward
something offered or given in return for a service performed there was a price on the criminal's head

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price

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verb

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Recent Examples of price
Noun
Offers have not been received, and Palace are keen to price teams out of any approaches. Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2025 Still, counterfeiters are getting more savvy and are using market data to price their products, Alhabash said. Gabrielle Fonrouge,paige Tortorelli, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
The Undefeated x Nike Air Max 95 OG Big Bubble is expected to be released this holiday season for a retail price of $200 from Undefeated. Riley Jones, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2025 But crop prices have been weak for most of the past decade except for brief a spike during the pandemic, according to the Minneapolis Fed. Jason Ma, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for price
Recent Examples of Synonyms for price
Noun
  • People would be wise to consider the ever-increasing cost of homes in the area before selling their property due to immigration enforcement fears, Gonzalez said.
    Juan Cordoba, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2025
  • This is the cost of having been tortured in public.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • All the horses' feed is paid for by Metro Nashville and the handler is given a $2,500 annual stipend for medical expenses.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to the great expense, many of the shows revolved around songs from old movies and movie musicals.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There is a reward of up to $25,000 for information submitted through the TIPS hotline.
    Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Training your pets to learn about rewards for good behavior and encouraging them to do more physical activity can be a challenge.
    Christine Persaud, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Cricket still prizes the five-day Test match, a historical format that demands patience in a world addicted to instant entertainment.
    Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Waters, who opened the Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse in 1971, is the chef most closely identified with the farm-to-table movement, which shares an affinity with MAHA in prizing sustainably grown, locally sourced whole foods; from that same soil grew the farm-to-school movement.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • CarMax recently listed two 2022 R1T Adventure electric pickup trucks for $51,998, before shipping and fees.
    Charles Singh, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • As detailed in a House Fiscal Agency report, the increase in the fuel tax will trigger higher annual fees of $100 for EVs and $50 for plug-ins, Irwin said.
    Paul Egan, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • New bounties will always be rolling in, so players should check with The Ghoul often to pick up the latest bounties – and their rewards upon completion, of course.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Plenty of clubs, Chelsea perhaps foremost, have spent small bounties of their own on changing their manager or head coach.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • To ascertain a player’s biological age, the height and date of birth of their biological parents is collected and their height and weight tracked every three months or so.
    Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Prior to digitization, this could be ascertained by monitoring the circulation of screening prints between distributors in New York.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The unemployment rate for Gen Z is more than double the national rate, which means freelance work may be a necessity as much as a choice.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2025
  • That matched Denver’s success rate on its first eight third-down attempts of the game.
    Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025

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