prohibitive
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The former vice president, U.S senator and California attorney general would have been a prohibitive favorite to end that gendered streak.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
No longer was Sinner the dominant force in tennis, the steamroller who had come in riding a 30-match winning streak and the prohibitive favorite to win his first French Open.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
In reality, the two are complementary: Quantum systems are expected to act as powerful supplements, tackling problems that would otherwise take prohibitive time, energy, or processing power to solve.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
And the former Labour first minister Mark Drakeford who ditched the scheme six years ago warned that the costs today would be "entirely prohibitive".
From BBC • May 2, 2026
But scholarships were few and far between, and the cost of private schooling was prohibitive for all but a privileged few.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Outliers
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