expensive
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Etching chips with DUV "is slower, lower-yield and more expensive than EUV production, but it is proving sufficient for near-frontier chips, unsettling policymakers and investors who had assumed China faced tighter constraints".
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Even in less expensive cities, the prospect of having a child can be financially daunting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Each Patriot interceptor costs approximately $4m - an expensive but effective option repeatedly used to shoot down Iranian drones that themselves only cost between $20,000-50,000 each.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
It’s also one of the most expensive and competitive cities when it comes to housing.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Penelope asked, for after her painful lesson of the previous day, she knew it would be optoomuchstic to try to find Lord Fredrick’s club by, say, following the smell of expensive cigars.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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