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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
Adjective
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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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Importantly, the president already has full legal authority to impose tariffs when other nations’ behavior places an unreasonable burden on our economy, including through environmental negligence.—
Chip Lamarca,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Jan. 2026
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The logic was that Spirit had projected the league would grow at a rate that the league itself found unreasonable, and so would not be able to field a team while also paying Rodman.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
4 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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New York is unaffordable, or at least expensive relative to many other American cities, for many reasons, including its and the state’s environmental and labor regulations and mandates, which push up costs.—
Nicole Gelinas,
Washington Post,
5 Jan. 2026
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This year gave us the Big Beautiful Bill, which gave huge tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy while making health care unaffordable for millions of our fellow citizens.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Jan. 2026
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That would be roughly twice the base price of the company’s most expensive factory model, the Phantom.—
Peter Valdes-Dapena,
CNN Money,
6 Jan. 2026
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Most gamers will look at an expensive keyboard to enhance their play style but often overlook the mouse.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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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 9 Jan. 2026.
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