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Recent Examples of prohibitive
Between tickets, parking and food, taking a family of four to see the Red Sox can be cost-prohibitive, especially for lower income families.
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Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
The pieces were not insured, which is not uncommon for state collections because of the prohibitive costs, the Times reported, citing France’s culture ministry.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Western Conference teams would be the prohibitive favorites.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
His one fear was that licensing the rights to the original series would be cost-prohibitive, given that they were owned by corporate behemoth Viacom.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025
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Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
The pieces were not insured, which is not uncommon for state collections because of the prohibitive costs, the Times reported, citing France’s culture ministry.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Western Conference teams would be the prohibitive favorites.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
His one fear was that licensing the rights to the original series would be cost-prohibitive, given that they were owned by corporate behemoth Viacom.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prohibitive
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Protesters who spoke with Reuters railed against the extortion and violence common in Michoacán, where lemon and avocado farmers are often forced to pay exorbitant bribes to drug trafficking groups.—
Max Saltman,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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Gone are Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard and instead Rebirth follows Scarlett Johansson’s Zora Bennett who’s offered an exorbitant amount of money to go collect some dino blood.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
1 Nov. 2025
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Officers are able to use loitering laws as general warrants to circumvent individuals’ constitutional right to be protected from unreasonable searches and seizures, Wood said.—
Alex Brizee,
Idaho Statesman,
10 Nov. 2025
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The class counsel has argued that objectors are raising either points that were already decided, inappropriate for this forum, or unreasonable to address.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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Under her failed leadership, New York is the most unaffordable state in the nation with the highest taxes, highest energy, utilities, rent, and grocery bills.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Nov. 2025
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Even in the past few years, buying a home has become increasingly unaffordable for first-time buyers.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
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If auto insurance with one carrier is more expensive than with another, a discount may not offset the difference.—
Liz Knueven,
CNBC,
10 Nov. 2025
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Why are consumers facing more expensive Affordable Care Act health insurance?—
Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 2025
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Studies show that even under optimistic scenarios, returning metals to Earth would remain uneconomic without major advances in throughput, spacecraft reuse, and automation.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
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The domestic fracking boom drove the price of natural gas down and wholesale energy prices down with it, leaving the plant uneconomical, said Tom Content, executive director of the Wisconsin Citizens Utility Board.—
Francesca Pica,
jsonline.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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Norwood also argued that the company did not look at other less costly options.—
Sydney Sasser,
Arkansas Online,
7 Nov. 2025
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The production has been costly, so results need to be good for the show, which comes from the same creatives behind High Water – a show about a huge central European flood in 1997.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
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Best Early Black Friday Target Kitchen Deals The sale brings steep discounts to top kitchen brands like Ninja, Keurig, and KitchenAid.—
Jacqueline Tempera,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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His mental health went into a steep decline.—
Marissa R. Moss,
Rolling Stone,
6 Nov. 2025
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Nothing is worse than unpacking your suitcase and seeing that your overpriced moisturizer has spilled onto your favorite sweater—avoid that kind of mess with the Crush Toiletry Bag, available in several fun shades.—
Caroline Hughes,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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To many listeners, Powell was saying stocks are overpriced.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Prohibitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prohibitive. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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