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externality

[ek-ster-nal-i-tee] / ˌɛk stərˈnæl ɪ ti /


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Most people think of money as a macro phenomenon or externality.

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026

"In economics, we call that externality," she said.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024

“We create prosperous and exclusive communities, but in so doing also create neighborhoods with concentrated despair — the externality of stockpiled opportunity.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

Our society has accepted these costs, he said — but with this stop sign camera, the District has charged for the externality in the hope of eliminating it.

From Washington Post ● May 31, 2022

Its utterance in deed with this freedom is an action, in the externality of which it only admits as its own, and allows to be imputed to it, so much as it has consciously willed.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

CEOs can’t take credit for the successes of A.I. while avoiding the negative externalities.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

How do you think about the potential externalities of AI, such as unemployment?

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

But those events tend to be intrinsic to business rather than externalities such as White House maneuvers or geopolitics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

Preparation for these varying externalities requires supply-chain middlemen and product sellers to anticipate consequential cost increases down the line—and implement them sooner than later, in order to cover their margins.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2024

Although she exhibits the diamond tassels sparkling in St. James's sun or the musk and amber that perfume the Mall, she never penetrates beyond externalities.

From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by George Frisbie Whicher


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