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Recent Examples of unaffordable
Addressing this unaffordable energy problem should be a top priority for state legislators and the governor.
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Wayne Winegarden, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
The original bill aimed to address rising housing costs that have become unaffordable for much of the state’s population.
—Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2025
The Honolulu area, where the median home price is 10 times the median income, also made the top 10 list of unaffordable housing markets.
—Natalie Wu, CNBC, 25 July 2025
On the plus side, San Diego isn’t getting more unaffordable, having been ranked No. 10 last year as well.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2025
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Wayne Winegarden, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
The original bill aimed to address rising housing costs that have become unaffordable for much of the state’s population.
—Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2025
The Honolulu area, where the median home price is 10 times the median income, also made the top 10 list of unaffordable housing markets.
—Natalie Wu, CNBC, 25 July 2025
On the plus side, San Diego isn’t getting more unaffordable, having been ranked No. 10 last year as well.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaffordable
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The 45-year-old is accused of tricking people into travelling to Indonesia and paying exorbitant fees for non-existent film work, before he was arrested in a hotel in Manchester, England, in November 2020.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
29 July 2025
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Banks may require collateral, impose exorbitant issuance fees or outright reject SME requests.—
Parvez Siddiqui,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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While Trump hailed Apple’s plans in February, his administration has continued to try and strong-arm the company into assembling iPhones in the U.S., which experts say would be cost prohibitive and take a very long time.—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
29 July 2025
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But his salary demands, reportedly £10million ($13.5m) a year, could prove prohibitive for interested teams.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
28 July 2025
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The rapidly dropping cost of inference means that use cases that are uneconomic today may not be six to 12 months in the future.—
Jeffrey Hammond,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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High level indicators of risk include goods being received from unusually complex or apparently uneconomic supply routes, for example, regular supplies of UK produced goods that have been exported from the UK and then re-imported.—
Mark Littler,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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The policy and specialist support environment is going to need to become more sophisticated, and more responsive to balancing needs and addressing conflict, unfairness and unreasonable requests / restrictions.—
Nancy Doyle,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina who studies organisms and ecosystems in radioactive regions, told the Times that the DOE's explanation that the wasps gathered legacy contamination for their homes is not unreasonable.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
4 Aug. 2025
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The model relies in part on apartments that use its website, which Warnock said are mainly larger, more expensive apartment buildings.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
12 Aug. 2025
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Falling gas prices helped keep overall inflation tame in July; however, a broader array of products got even more expensive last month, showing that President Donald Trump’s expansive tariffs are being passed along to consumers.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
12 Aug. 2025
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Despite strong performances from key players like Phil Foden and Erling Haaland, City's push for a fourth straight league crown was derailed by a few costly draws late in the campaign.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
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Plastics Technology Readiness Matrix Preserving Social License to Operate As global awareness of environmental justice rises, companies that proactively address community siting, health impacts, and international waste flows will preserve operating licenses and avoid costly litigation.—
Trond Arne Undheim,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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Even if a cold spell follows warm weather, if the temperature has already been stabilized at 58 to 60 degrees those same steep banks and dams on the downwind shore are spots to bet on.—
Anthony A. Ciuffa,
Outdoor Life,
7 Aug. 2025
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Failure to comply can carry steep penalties, with fines ranging from thousands to millions of dollars.—
Sagi Eliyahu,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Jake Rhodes, a real estate investor with Dynasty, told the city council that the cost will be pricey just to get the feasibility study completed.—
Deborah Laverty,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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Giving people a two-day notice could also encourage them to buy now and clear out Nintendo's stock of older, less pricey Switch consoles.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
1 Aug. 2025
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