prohibitively
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However for most, heat pumps are prohibitively expensive to install.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Americans now spend tens of billions of dollars a year on their animals, and in a country where raising children has become prohibitively expensive, many people lavish their pets instead.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
That puts it at an advantage in the current artificial-intelligence era, the company said, because it can “provide novel, high-value data that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive or altogether unattainable” for training models.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
For some, the cost highlights how dining out has become prohibitively expensive in one of the world's culinary capitals.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
This sounds reasonable, but in most cases it’s simply impossible or, what amounts to the same thing, prohibitively expensive.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
