afford

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"We simply can't afford that," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra, adding: "We're only a small business. We can't pass that on to the farmers."

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

A region’s energy policy will be judged by whether the lights stay on and whether people can afford the bill.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The trick is knowing how much fun you can afford.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

East African farmers struggled to afford fertilizer even before the crisis and will likely have to make do with even less.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

Plus, no one family could afford all of the different equipment—the plows, the threshing machines, the corn shellers, and so on—that they needed to farm all their land.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson