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costliness

NOUN
exorbitance
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“This understates the costliness to U.S. households though, because tariffs also allow non-importing firms to raise their prices if they’re competing with imports,” Bivens said.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2026

It’s likely that the four-star product is higher quality despite its lower rating, because its costliness weighed down its reviews.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

What has so often turned heads about her style is not the costliness of her clothes or the trendiness of them.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2022

But the costliness of the move also made it feel just a little more luxurious.

From The Verge ● Sep. 8, 2022

The exceeding costliness of his "Birds of America" protected that work as completely as an International Copyright could; and, but for this, we never could have had it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various




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