externality

Example Sentences

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"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

But each of them—roadway safety, air pollution, and infrastructure—is an externality we can see coming a mile away and deal with accordingly.

From Slate • May 21, 2021

The actual soul with its sensation and its concrete self-feeling turned into habit, has implicitly realised the 'ideality' of its qualities; in this externality it has recollected and inwardised itself, and is infinite self-relation.

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