costly
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Beneficiary-designation mistakes are among the most common and costly errors in estate planning, and they happen to careful planners just as often as careless ones.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Instead of passing light through costly, specialized glass that gets damaged, the design relies on excimer lasers that use a gas mixture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Abiy "does not seem to want to be drawn into a costly ground war in Tigray at this point," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Man City buy costly new midfield - but have they overlooked Haaland cover?
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
But bombes were costly and time-consuming to run, and there were nowhere near enough of them, so British code breakers were also solving many Enigma messages—fully or in part—with pencil, paper, and know-how.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Investors weighed the AI bellwether’s rosy long-term revenue outlook against concerns that the capital it is raising to build data centers could grow costlier as borrowing rates rise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
This means that higher yields, like we have now, make it costlier to finance a home.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Built from high-resolution microscope images rather than costlier molecular techniques, it creates a detailed three-dimensional map of the brainstem, identifying more than 200 clusters of brain cells and nerve pathways.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
But their coverage tends to be skimpier and often costlier than policies sold by travel insurers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
But they bowed to Sproul’s judgment that losing Lawrence would be even costlier, and voted to cover all the annual operating and maintenance costs that Lawrence had budgeted for the Rad Lab.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
But now, to clear that and potentially close the deal far later than he’d hoped, Ellison is making his riskiest and costliest bet yet: going to trial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
But they are also less disposable than other weapons, among the costliest in Iran’s arsenal to produce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Burns: It is one of the costliest mistakes investors make.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
Later in the year, Jaguar Land Rover was attacked, in what became the costliest cyber event in UK history.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
Exquisite in its size, perfect in its shape, the stone was lovelier than the finest pearl and more gorgeous than the costliest jewel.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
