as in expensive
commanding a large price
Seattle is generally credited with transforming coffee from a workaday drink to a trendy and spendy beverage
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Recent Examples of spendy
Photograph: Samsung Forget the spendy flagship smartphone.
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Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2025
Reforming and eventually replacing this spendy program should be at the top of any to do list for a new administration.
—Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
The spendy options run from the eponymous Italian dishes of dressed fish to uni taco bites, caviar nachos and prawns a la plancha.
—Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
No airbags, anti-lock brakes, shoulder belts, cruise control or air conditioning (likely a spendy option).
—William Roberson, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
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Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2025
Reforming and eventually replacing this spendy program should be at the top of any to do list for a new administration.
—Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
The spendy options run from the eponymous Italian dishes of dressed fish to uni taco bites, caviar nachos and prawns a la plancha.
—Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
No airbags, anti-lock brakes, shoulder belts, cruise control or air conditioning (likely a spendy option).
—William Roberson, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spendy
Adjective
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Hypersonic weapons are expensive and difficult-to-produce systems able to travel at Mach 5—i.e., upwards of five times the speed of sound.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 July 2025
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Fixing underground water pipes usually means digging up roads and sidewalks — a process that's disruptive and expensive.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
7 July 2025
Adjective
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Interacting with other Substack writers can lead to valuable cross-promotion opportunities.—
Jane Hanson,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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As the craft of writing is degraded by A.I., original writing has become a valuable resource for training language models.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
Adjective
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An example of this could be quality control, where a supply chain disruption can have massive (and costly) downstream effects.—
Ed Jennings,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Without proper maintenance, homeowners could face more costly problems down the line.—
Rachel Barber,
USA Today,
11 July 2025
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“Spendy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spendy. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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