exorbitant
Example Sentences
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Molten glass drops through chutes before being blown into bottles at manufacturer Encirc's northwest England plant, where intensive operations are under strain from exorbitant energy prices weighing on Britain's heavy industry.
From Barron's
In my quest to prove that quintessentially Parisian experiences can be had without exorbitant fees, I went in search of affordable perfumery workshops.
“That is cold comfort for a consumer who has been struggling with four years of exorbitant cumulative inflation and is looking for relief,” Moskow said.
“I was getting just an exorbitant amount of calls, like every single day, and had learned to not pick up my phone,” he said.
So far the status of the dollar as the world’s dominant global currency, and therefore the U.S.’s so-called “exorbitant privilege” of being able to run sustained balance-of-payments deficits without penalty, has remained intact.
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