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

Amid all this military posturing, where countries are blowing up their satellites to show that they can, it seems like there’s a negative externality, which is all the debris that gets created.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2021

In both cases with a limitation caused by the externality and fragmentariness of the facts and the need of interpreting them through our own conscious experiences.

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