unaffordable

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Recent Examples of unaffordable Rising home values, skyrocketing insurance costs, and the overall unaffordable housing situation here are squeezing households. Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025 Pakistan also has increasingly unaffordable electricity, with power prices more than doubling in the last three years. Betsy Joles, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for unaffordable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaffordable
Adjective
  • This leaves the remainder, folks more likely to purchase insurance because of poorer health, with potentially exorbitant premiums and out-of-pocket costs.
    Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • This means finalizing an open banking rule that guarantees every American the right to access and share their financial data without prohibitive fees.
    Penny Lee, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • For once, zooming in proves to be prohibitive, only in seeing the scope of this mind-bending tragedy does Greengrass truly find his most important story.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 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
  • Russia is trying to paint Ukraine as the unreasonable party in negotiations, Ferris said.
    Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Darryl Morin, national president of Forward Latino, a Latino advocacy group based in Franklin, Wisconsin, said the decision erodes Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
    Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s e-mail newsletter turned e-commerce platform, monetized an all-natural life style, promoting raw-goat-milk cleanses and expensive organic cosmetics.
    Clare Malone, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Drone dilemma The US excels at building large, expensive weaponry, but most American soldiers lack the know-how for fighting with unmanned systems.
    Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Those industrial-grade ones are both costlier and bulkier than domestic models.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Keeping it clear not only helps your fridge run efficiently but can also lower energy costs and prevent costly repairs down the line.
    Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Some technology geeks may indeed be attracted to these features, though there are trade-offs here, and steep ones, as many normies will also find these features absolutely infuriating.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Trump’s immigration crackdown is at odds with his efforts to bring foreign money into the US and could unsettle trade talks with South Korea, which in July pledged $350 billion in investments in exchange for being spared steep tariffs.
    Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Doctors may assume a decades-old generic medication is inexpensive, yet insurance formularies may make this traditional drug an overpriced option.
    Dr. Jill Grimes, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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

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“Unaffordable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaffordable. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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