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Recent Examples of unaffordable
Housing prices have continued to move higher with higher rates and are basically unaffordable for millennials, especially given the starting salaries of the kinds of work their degrees demand.
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Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Charlotte home prices are becoming increasingly unaffordable, along with the rest of the country.
—Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 12 Sep. 2025
Yet, over the past 15 years that medication has become increasingly unaffordable.
—Ana Santos Rutschman, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
Critics of Mamdani have argued that his proposals would be unrealistic and unaffordable, hurting the city’s economy.
—Jared Gans, The Hill, 6 Sep. 2025
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Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Charlotte home prices are becoming increasingly unaffordable, along with the rest of the country.
—Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 12 Sep. 2025
Yet, over the past 15 years that medication has become increasingly unaffordable.
—Ana Santos Rutschman, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
Critics of Mamdani have argued that his proposals would be unrealistic and unaffordable, hurting the city’s economy.
—Jared Gans, The Hill, 6 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaffordable
Adjective
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The Bypass, too, sees little traffic despite its exorbitant cost.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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These generous subsidies were always a wildly expensive and irresponsible fix for the exorbitant premiums that Obamacare itself brought about.—
Sally Pipes,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Thanks to a groundbreaking agreement last summer, Anythink and its Rocky Mountain peers can now get around those prohibitive licensing costs.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
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The $100,000 fees, along with new prevailing wage rules, may be prohibitive enough to tank the whole program.—
Patricia Lopez,
Mercury News,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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In some, very uneconomical cases, cheap drones have been shot down with interceptor missiles worth millions of dollars.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The influencer, who was in her 20s and had garnered over 300,000 followers on TikTok, allegedly wanted to cut ties with Choi due to his coercive instructions and unreasonable scheduling, according to the reports.—
Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
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As Philadelphia gears up for hopefully a return to the playoffs in 2025-26 (although title expectations would be probably an unreasonable expectation now), the team is not being particularly precious with its previous rotational thoughts.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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For a ski station closer to Tokyo and less expensive than Niseko, try Nekoma Mountain in Fukushima province.—
Kristin Braswell,
AFAR Media,
7 Oct. 2025
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In typical hypercar fashion, the car just sat there in the parking lot looking pretty and expensive during the parade and didn't move.—
Keenan Thompson,
Freep.com,
6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The verdict is still out as to whether September’s pullback in cattle futures is a temporary pause in an ongoing climb higher or the first sign of lasting relief in a costly beef cycle.—
Natasha Abellard,
CNBC,
3 Oct. 2025
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But its stock’s advance has lagged that of rival GM as costly recalls to fix quality defects have detracted from Farley’s strategic refocusing and efforts to improve profit margins.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Similar protests occurred in Brazil over steep living costs and poor healthcare and education ahead of the country hosting the 2014 World Cup tournament.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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This figure marks a steep decline from last year’s already historic low of 31%, and continues a nearly five-decade slide from the high of 68% recorded in 1972.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Most measures are screaming that the S&P is insanely overpriced.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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The 2025 Wrangler Rubicon 4xe is absurd, impractical, overpriced, and an odd combination of power – which is exactly why people should love it.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Unaffordable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaffordable. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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