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externality

[ek-ster-nal-i-tee] / ˌɛk stərˈnæl ɪ ti /


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Most people think of money as a macro phenomenon or externality.

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026

"In economics, we call that externality," she said.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024

“We create prosperous and exclusive communities, but in so doing also create neighborhoods with concentrated despair — the externality of stockpiled opportunity.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

The externality that’s unique to corn and soy is the obesity and disease that result from eating way too many foods that contain the industrial ingredients derived from them.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2022

The image, which in the mine of intelligence was only its property, now that it has been endued with externality, comes actually into its possession.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

How do you think about the potential externalities of AI, such as unemployment?

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

But those events tend to be intrinsic to business rather than externalities such as White House maneuvers or geopolitics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

In traditional economics-speak, hidden costs are known as externalities – spillover effects from production that are caused by one party but paid for by another.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2024

“The negative externalities of generative AI will be a critical topic for debate in 2024,” Havemeyer said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

Properly speaking, the individual was related to God only through the externalities of the clan or tribal life, its common temple and its common sacra.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various




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