externality

Example Sentences

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Most people think of money as a macro phenomenon or externality.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

"In economics, we call that externality," she said.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2024

In short, electric vehicle production just doesn’t look like a network externality business.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2022

Amid all this military posturing, where countries are blowing up their satellites to show that they can, it seems like there’s a negative externality, which is all the debris that gets created.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2021

So conceived the doctrine of external relations appears to be rather the doctrine of complete externality of things.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.