cost-effective

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If California’s punitive morass of regulatory and litigious constraints on dredging were reformed, new technologies could make dredging more cost-effective than ever.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

These results establish graphene as an accessible and cost-effective system for exploring ideas that are usually associated with extreme environments.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

Tuesday’s guidance stipulates that various federal agencies will establish cost-effective partnerships with private-sector companies to deploy nuclear reactors in orbit “as early as 2028” and on the Moon by 2030.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

At the time, UK advisers decided a widespread NHS catch-up campaign to vaccinate teenagers was not cost-effective.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

But a PIH doctor spoke up, saying that he had signed the Hippocratic Oath to practice medicine ethically, but he didn’t remember signing an oath to do it in a cost-effective way.

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