sunk
Example Sentences
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The state Public Utilities Commission rejected PG&E’s plan this month because it “risks stranding sunk infrastructure costs,” namely in transmission systems.
The numbers in 2000 were immense, with well over $100 billion being sunk into new telecom networks in the late 1990s.
With that seemingly hopeless house, they sunk about $135,000 and eight weeks into cleaning and renovation.
One reason the moves in Washington haven’t sunk the stocks is that investors had already anticipated some of those effects.
From Barron's
"If any containers have sunk they're not going to be a problem, but it's the ones that are still afloat, they're the hazard."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.