externality

Example Sentences

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"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

The externality that’s unique to corn and soy is the obesity and disease that result from eating way too many foods that contain the industrial ingredients derived from them.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2022

These facts means nothing to anyone but me—I literally made them all up—and yet having to abandon any of them because of an uncontrollable externality feels like a betrayal.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2020

It is a higher form than mere nutrition; for nutrition destroys the nature of such externality as it receives into itself, while feeling preserves the external in its foreign individuality.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)