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prohibitively

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This is especially true in environments where added bulk may be prohibitive, including during commuting of any type.

Senior citizens, people with reduced mobility, those who live far away from their voting place, and anyone who tried to vote early but couldn’t due to complicated or prohibitive absentee ballot procedures often need to catch a ride to vote.

Ostensibly that’s because the cost of shooting on Venice Beach was prohibitive, but based on this episode and the 30 seconds of the show you can find on YouTube, the more likely reason is that it was a terrible show.

From Vox

When they debuted in 1969, PlayCubes were made of fiberglass, which became cost-prohibitive.

“You consider advertising increasing in costs, you consider logistics increasing in costs, and you have a situation where growth in e-commerce for smaller companies becomes a lot more prohibitive,” he said.

From Digiday

Many government entities have done their best to make smoking prohibitively expensive.

These fees are “prohibitively expensive, particularly for larger families,” says a statement Human Rights Watch on the issue.

But he said the price of operating the system was prohibitively high.

But this year's budget for NASA will not fund such a program, which the administration deemed prohibitively expensive.

Licenses were made prohibitively high; labor agents were arrested and heavily fined.

The removal of the asteroids as a cheap source would mean that iron would become prohibitively expensive.

Group D, after the first raking, shows a prohibitively low and constantly decreasing capacity.

The method of editorial expression in the magazines of 1889 was also distinctly vague and prohibitively impersonal.

In his opinion that settled upon for the bridal suite was almost prohibitively high.

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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to prohibitively, such as: acutely, awfully, exceedingly, exceptionally, excessively, and extraordinarily.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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