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sunk

[suhngk] / sʌŋk /








ADJECTIVE
drowned
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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

The numbers in 2000 were immense, with well over $100 billion being sunk into new telecom networks in the late 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal

With that seemingly hopeless house, they sunk about $135,000 and eight weeks into cleaning and renovation.

From The Wall Street Journal

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