Example Sentences

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“We responded by curtailing uneconomic production, carefully managing working capital and using our market access to meet customer demand.”

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

“California’s decision to keep this uneconomic and costly resource open is bad for taxpayers and worse for ratepayers,” Beard said in a statement to The Times.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2026

Bright said $200 billion in purchases isn’t “large enough to put significant downward pressure on rates, and buying at uneconomic levels eventually runs its course,” he told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026

Still, they warned that “it does raise questions on long-term implications with potentially uneconomic projects being subsidized into production.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

Put out at a time when money was scarce, the loan would have been unpatriotic and uneconomic.

From The War After the War by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick