exorbitant

Example Sentences

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“That is cold comfort for a consumer who has been struggling with four years of exorbitant cumulative inflation and is looking for relief,” Moskow said.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I was getting just an exorbitant amount of calls, like every single day, and had learned to not pick up my phone,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

So far the status of the dollar as the world’s dominant global currency, and therefore the U.S.’s so-called “exorbitant privilege” of being able to run sustained balance-of-payments deficits without penalty, has remained intact.

From Barron's

Almost 60 years ago a miffed French politician dubbed the dollar system an “exorbitant privilege.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Travel said that there is a "culture" of airlines using "low headline fares, then charging exorbitant prices on top to take a standard cabin bag".

From BBC