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  • present tense form of cost (3rd person singular).
  • plural of cost.

costs





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Still, the speed of price growth—including the impact of higher oil costs triggered by Middle East tensions—remains largely in line with the bank’s projections, they added.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Garry Tan, who runs the startup incubator Y Combinator, is among the loudest of those voices, casting safety-driven regulation as a threat to the small companies that cannot absorb its costs.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

The federal district court issued a preliminary injunction partly on this basis, noting the burdens on election administrators were high and the public interest costs dire.

From Slate Sep. 15, 2026

But Hoover, the former Biden administration advisor, said those calculations omit how much the country would have saved in avoided health care costs.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

From his PhD research on Korean pharmaceutical companies, Jim knew that the price of a drug to the public often had little to do with the costs of manufacturing or distributing it.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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