costlier
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Higher mortgage rates make it costlier for builders to buy forward commitments from lenders, which is an agreement to buy mortgages in bulk at a below-market rate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
AI companies could try to make models that generate more faithful and human-readable representations of their activity, but even if they succeeded, they would be costlier and much more difficult to train, says Kambhampati.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
There are fresh challenges too: Volatile geopolitics have made business costlier and less predictable, while artificial intelligence now allows users to create photorealistic images by just typing words.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Higher interest rates make it costlier to borrow money, which acts as a brake on spending and economic growth.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
But they bowed to Sproul’s judgment that losing Lawrence would be even costlier, and voted to cover all the annual operating and maintenance costs that Lawrence had budgeted for the Rad Lab.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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