exorbitance

Example Sentences

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The exorbitance of Park Place, the alien sound of Kamchatka and Irkutsk — these were backward-feeling games that urged ravenous competition.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023

“Do you need to have all this excess and exorbitance spent on making a bathroom experience fun and exciting?”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2022

And sadness, like exorbitance, depends entirely upon what it’s being compared to.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 11, 2019

What's interesting about all this is not that people at the bottom of the market get fleeced, but rather that those same tactics – complexity and exorbitance – are deployed by the mainstream as well.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2012

An even more sinister concession to Bulgarian exorbitance was that of Epirus, a district assigned to Albania in 1913 but populated by Greeks who had revolted and claimed incorporation in Greece.

From A Short History of the Great War by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)