externality

Example Sentences

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

From Science Daily • May 22, 2024

In short, electric vehicle production just doesn’t look like a network externality business.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2022

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

With touch, there is reproduction of externality, but the ideality of the reproduction is not so complete as in the other forms.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)