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Made a great save to deny Christos Tzolis but that mistake ultimately proved costly.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

For Vietnam, the project offers a reliable source of less costly energy.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Council members in support of the measure said the three meetings are costly and ineffective, and noted their time is better spent working in their district.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

They point to rising prices paid by private insurers and suggest that greater regulation could reduce volumes of costly low-value procedures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

It was a stupid, costly thing to do, but Kelley didn’t hesitate to cover for his buddy.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

If more people use AI large-language models for search, that could reduce Google’s income and make it harder and costlier to fund its AI ambitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Along with making those companies’ borrowing costlier, it raises a bigger question: How much more expensive can financing get before it starts to slow the AI build-out?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Also, the process to execute inmates on death row has grown longer and costlier, as appeals helped push up the average age at execution to nearly 60 years old.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

There are fresh challenges too: Volatile geopolitics have made business costlier and less predictable, while artificial intelligence now allows users to create photorealistic images by just typing words.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

But they bowed to Sproul’s judgment that losing Lawrence would be even costlier, and voted to cover all the annual operating and maintenance costs that Lawrence had budgeted for the Rad Lab.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

It’s a difficult calculation for teams, especially because the last couple of years have shown that the costliest financial mistake in all of football is handing out one of those megadeals to the wrong quarterback.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

This is probably the least costly option, but also the costliest politically.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Local enthusiasm for the tournament had fallen away after co-hosts the United States were knocked out by Belgium on July 6, but tickets for the final still became the costliest in US sporting history.

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026

Berlin aims to rationalize burdensome data-protection regulations, freeing small businesses from the costliest strictures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

When Cortes and his Indian allies finally attacked, the Mexica resisted so fiercely despite their weakness that the siege has often been described as the costliest battle in history—casualty estimates range up to 100,000.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann