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Recent Examples of unaffordable
Shoppers are concerned that tariffs could re-ignite inflation, and make everyday goods unaffordable, while economists are raising the odds of the U.S. economy entering a recession in 2025.
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Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 1 May 2025
This means Europeans are effectively being forced to buy EVs as internal combustion engine vehicles become unaffordable because of the cost of cutting CO2 emissions to zero.
—Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Throughout Maryland — especially in rural and working-class communities — families struggle with housing that is unaffordable, utility bills that keep climbing and jobs that may not be there tomorrow.
—Christine Lightfoot, Baltimore Sun, 25 May 2025
According to Reuters, many locals have blamed the sites for creating an unsustainable rental environment, reducing housing supply and making rent unaffordable for locals.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 20 May 2025
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Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 1 May 2025
This means Europeans are effectively being forced to buy EVs as internal combustion engine vehicles become unaffordable because of the cost of cutting CO2 emissions to zero.
—Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Throughout Maryland — especially in rural and working-class communities — families struggle with housing that is unaffordable, utility bills that keep climbing and jobs that may not be there tomorrow.
—Christine Lightfoot, Baltimore Sun, 25 May 2025
According to Reuters, many locals have blamed the sites for creating an unsustainable rental environment, reducing housing supply and making rent unaffordable for locals.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaffordable
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Joseph also notes allegations circulating on social networks and in local press reports about the exorbitant amount council members are being paid, along with their wives.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
18 June 2025
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Scott Stringer Stringer has promised to hire 3,000 more cops, deploying more officers to the subway and using reforms to reduce exorbitant overtime costs.—
Téa Kvetenadze,
New York Daily News,
17 June 2025
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China exports heavily to U.S. markets, and Trump’s tariffs on China—which rose to a prohibitive 145% before being temporarily lowered to 30%—left many Chinese and American businesses in a state of uncertainty.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
27 June 2025
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While a growing number of listings sit idle in the United States' housing market, as buyers are kept on the sidelines by sky-high prices and prohibitive borrowing costs, multimillion-dollar homes are still going under contract in some of the most expensive parts of the country.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 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 Biden-era Justice Department, Washington, D.C., and six states sued in 2021, arguing the alliance violates Section 1 of the Sherman Act, a federal antitrust law that prohibits unreasonable restraints on competition.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
30 June 2025
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Expectations for Jade are borderline unreasonable, and patience is a virtue in WWE as evidenced by all the times Karrion Kross was allowed to fall on his face for years before finally finding his voice.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Because kids don’t always need an expensive class or activity in order to learn valuable life skills.—
Miranda Rake,
Parents,
25 June 2025
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The prices vary by area, but the general price range is between $24 and $45, with the Mariner's Boil being more expensive.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
25 June 2025
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Incredibly costly, tapestries were a status symbol for the wealthy, notably, the nobility and royalty, and used in their public and private spaces, from dining and gathering rooms to bed chambers.—
Kristina McGuirk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 June 2025
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Similarly, our transit system — the CTA, Pace and Metra — needs an overhaul, but not through costly projects like the $1 billion-per-mile Red Line expansion.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2025
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Challenges need to be overcome, such as insufficient quality of input data, limited historical data, lack of highly skilled data scientists and analysts, regulatory compliance and steep adoption costs.—
Alexandr Khomich,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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The Senate's steeper cuts to Medicaid are likely to irritate moderates while the higher price tag could alienate conservatives.—
Caitlin Yilek
July 1,
CBS News,
1 July 2025
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Although the company could reduce costs by up to 10% if the manufacturing were scaled out to hundreds of thousands of units, the resulting phone would still be pricey.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
23 June 2025
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The bill — signed in Clearwater on the eve of the four-year anniversary of the collapse of the Champlain Towers South — doesn’t include any new money to help finance pricey and mandatory repairs.—
Alexandra Glorioso,
Miami Herald,
23 June 2025
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“Unaffordable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaffordable. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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