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cost

[kawst, kost] / kɔst, kɒst /






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In the 12 months that ended in April, the cost of services rose 3.3%, compared with a five-year low of 2.9% in January.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

The incident outside a Bristol nightclub in 2017 almost cost him his England career.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Looking ahead, the platform will establish a framework for future deployments of XPU-based compute capacity and networking infrastructure aimed at lowering the cost and power requirements of AI model training and inference, it added.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Converting at those rates could cost a fraction of what it might cost in peak earning years.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Long before the sum was raised Father came down with the hepatitis that almost cost his life: during the long stay in the hospital his beard turned snow white.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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