unaffordable

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Recent Examples of unaffordable That means the impact of unaffordable medicine hits us especially hard. Jerri Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025 At some point, California will need to stand up to its powerful public-employee unions and pare back these unaffordable benefits. The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 17 Aug. 2025 These plans have become increasingly unaffordable for small businesses and their workers. Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025 When authentic, quality products become unaffordable, the entire supply chain suffers. Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unaffordable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaffordable
Adjective
  • Leaning into its own evolution over retro homage or elegant pastiche, Art of Vengeance shows the value that a two-dimensional platformer can have at a time when exorbitant AAA games all suffer from overly ambitious bloat.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency designed in part by Warren as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reforms, finalized a rule in late 2024 that closed a loophole allowing banks to charge exorbitant overdraft fees.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Experiment faster without prohibitive costs.
    David Henkin, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • That’s due to a combination of cost-prohibitive music rights and clips borrowed from other films and TV series.
    Will Harris, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Chevron bought Texas in 2001 for $36 billion at a time when the Permian position was considered a depleted afterthought before the shale revolution unlocked reservoirs previously considered uneconomic.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Agreements should include mechanisms to renegotiate or exit if compliance becomes impossible or uneconomical.
    AJ Dhaliwal, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The Justice Department in its June 2024 report on problems with policing in Phoenix found that police delayed medical assistance to people who appeared to be incapacitated as a result of the use of force by officers and used unreasonable force on people who had already been wounded by officers.
    Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Investors had initially feared that ASDA’s undercuts would lead to market leaders Tesco and Sainsbury’s having to lower prices to an unreasonable point in order to maintain their market shares.
    John Choong, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Washing a couch or sofa, professional carpet and upholstery cleaner Ben Brazell says, is more precarious than carpet cleaning because the upholstery is often a lot more expensive and much easier to damage.
    Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Kelty Low Loveseat At around $130, the Kelty Low Loveseat hits a sweet spot price-wise; substantial enough to feel generous, but not over-the-top expensive.
    Francesca Krempa, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Ultimately, costly mistakes — a Miles Sanders red zone fumble in the third quarter and three drops from CeeDee Lamb in the fourth quarter — gave the Eagles a slim 24-20 victory.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Oregon is another state feeling the strain of costlier and harder to obtain insurance policies, with Cotality finding that major insurers have begun to pull back homeowner insurance coverage in parts of Oregon.
    Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Aviation resources and hand crews will play a primary role due to steep, rocky terrain and limited dozer access.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The district’s disparate parts would be connected largely by two-lane highways cutting through steep slopes of places such as the Modoc National Forest, where nervous drivers must beware of a lack of guardrails.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • At the same time, everything from mini-bars to a beer at what were once cheap lobby bars has gotten wildly overpriced, especially on the Strip.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • As Sin City grapples with a tourism decline, one Las Vegas icon is pointing fingers at overpriced casinos and hotels and the damage the COVID-19 virus left behind.
    Ashley J. DiMella, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Unaffordable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaffordable. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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