costliness

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“This understates the costliness to U.S. households though, because tariffs also allow non-importing firms to raise their prices if they’re competing with imports,” Bivens said.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026

It’s likely that the four-star product is higher quality despite its lower rating, because its costliness weighed down its reviews.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

What has so often turned heads about her style is not the costliness of her clothes or the trendiness of them.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2022

But the costliness of the move also made it feel just a little more luxurious.

From The Verge • Sep. 8, 2022

Yet the Greeks and Romans of the better times, owing to the costliness of the material, contented themselves with the possession of borders or stripes of purple.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Duncker, Max