economical
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Now, “people are eating more chicken thighs—for protein, for flavor, and for economical reasons,” said Chef Eric Huang, Pecking House’s founder and a former Eleven Madison Park sous-chef.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
As a result, researchers have been searching for a more efficient and economical way to produce these exceptionally tough materials.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
That homage did not extend to long soliloquy; “Burn the Water” is intentionally economical.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026
“It also helps that Italian-American restaurants, from that time well into the 1950’s, were seen as an economical luxury,” MacAllen adds.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026
It has all the qualities we admire in language: it’s handy, succinct, and economical, and everybody knows what it means.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Vocabulary lists containing economical
Commonly Confused Words, List 1
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"A Retrieved Reformation" by O. Henry
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Ronald Reagan, "Tear Down This Wall" (1987)
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