- present participle of cost.
costing
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"This deadlock is not new, and it risks costing us valuable time in our response to climate change," the French envoy said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Customers can sign up for a membership costing £1 for 12 months.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Disasters costing at least $1 billion totaled more than $115 billion of damages in 2025, nearly four times the annual average in the 1990s, according to a Ceres study.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
State police joined him each time, costing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars for trips unrelated to his job as attorney general.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
He wrote one to his aunt, apologizing for causing her so much trouble and costing her so much money.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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