cheap
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By now you’ve heard that the American military needs more cheap drones and missiles, but U.S. forces are also facing a dangerous decline in ships, submarines and aircraft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Those are all good ways to keep housing cheap in your 20s.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
These companies saw hundreds of customers queueing to create their own dessert pot, despite it not being a particularly cheap treat, with tubs costing as much as £12.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
With consumer debt cheap and federal regulators sidelined, debt collection giants are increasingly turning to litigation to secure payouts.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
“It is better to be without the seed than bereft of the land in which to plant it. Seed is cheap, it can be bought. I can earn a few rupees, or perhaps my sons...”
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
We followed the supply chain behind official shirts after fans told us they were frustrated by rising prices, with many turning to cheaper counterfeits instead.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
That said, Uber and Lyft were significantly cheaper than Waymo on a Saturday afternoon trip from a Scottsdale resort to my house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
All three are betting that 2027 will be cheaper than 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Singh has urged his drivers to strategically fuel up in Arizona, where fuel prices are a couple of dollars cheaper, before reentering California to save on costs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
He invented a part of a threshing machine, better, cheaper, and more efficient than any in existence.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
According to Ticket-Compare, UK inflation has since risen by about 32.4% and the cheapest NFL London tickets have risen by 43.9%.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Now dad and mom, who have been transporting them around for years in club softball, will have to begin looking for the cheapest flights to Tallahassee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
My sister always chooses places where it’s cheapest for her to fly.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
“Typically, the cheapest price that you find on the internet is not going to end up being your best overall deal,” said Jared Glover, who runs a Jeep-Ram store in the Tulsa, Okla., area.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The house we lived in was nothing more than a shack, a barracks with single plank walls and rough wooden floors, like the cheapest kind of migrant workers’ housing.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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