prohibitively

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That puts it at an advantage in the current artificial-intelligence era, the company said, because it can “provide novel, high-value data that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive or altogether unattainable” for training models.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Top-tier Derby tickets, too, are now prohibitively expensive for most locals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Brands and bottle manufacturers warn that a prolonged war will risk making a crucial commodity prohibitively expensive for many Indians.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Technically you can shield people from radiation with thick barriers of water, but getting the water or other protective substances into space and constructing the shields has thus far proved prohibitively expensive.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2026

This sounds reasonable, but in most cases it’s simply impossible or, what amounts to the same thing, prohibitively expensive.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos