economical
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Inventories rise, customers diversify, producers change investment plans, and infrastructure that had been too expensive becomes economical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
"Local ice is more economical, but Kuramoto Ice is clearer, denser and melts more slowly," co-owner Yong Wei told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
“Such a replacement will fail to adequately honor President John F. Kennedy, but would be simpler and more economical to build, operate, and maintain,” the administration’s lawyers wrote in the filing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
The researchers believe SS-H2 could replace some of those expensive components with a much more economical steel.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
A Scottish writer of the late 1700s noticed that tea had “become an economical substitute to the middle and lower classes of society for malt liquor,” which they could no longer afford.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
Vocabulary lists containing economical
Commonly Confused Words, List 1
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"A Retrieved Reformation" by O. Henry
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Ronald Reagan, "Tear Down This Wall" (1987)
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