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[kawst, kost] / kɔst, kɒst /






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Musk did not announce a price for the vehicle, but it is expected to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

She has admitted that herself, saying, “These seminal moments where you have to go in and tell the president what he wants to do is unconstitutional or will cost lives. I don’t have that.”

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

First up, hosts Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers dig into what is causing inflation and why bananas should actually cost more than they do.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026

It cost an average of $2.34 per mile to operate a truck in 2025, and about 44% of that represents driver wages and benefits, according to the American Transportation Research Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Simply because he had vowed to save his family, no matter the cost?

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

On average, a 10-minute episode costs about $10,000 to make and takes about 10 days to go from idea to release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

She added that there is also an insufficient number of schools booking guided tours at the site to cover costs.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Proponents of AI see it as an antidote to high production costs and say it allows creatives to make films that otherwise would never be made.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

The CoreWeave selloff shows a pressure point from climbing borrowing costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Remember,” Mrs. Branson continued, “your house, food, clothes, it all costs money. Everything’s different when there’s a little one.”

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Exactly how the money would be spent was left to be decided at a later date - with the long overdue and disputed Defence Investment Plan promising to provide the full costed shopping list.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Findlay told the event in Edinburgh: "This manifesto is our most detailed plan ever for making that vision a reality. It is comprehensive, costed and credible."

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026

At a launch event in Edinburgh, Findlay described the manifesto as "comprehensive, costed and credible".

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026

The costed options were signed off by the board in December.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

“Don’t see how. When my daddy died last year this April it costed one hundred and fifty dollars. ’

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

"This deadlock is not new, and it risks costing us valuable time in our response to climate change," the French envoy said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Customers can sign up for a membership costing £1 for 12 months.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Disasters costing at least $1 billion totaled more than $115 billion of damages in 2025, nearly four times the annual average in the 1990s, according to a Ceres study.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

State police joined him each time, costing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars for trips unrelated to his job as attorney general.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

With prisons so much in the news, costing so much money, and confining such unprecedented numbers of people, it seemed to me that their operations should be completely transparent.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover


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