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Recent Examples of cut-price The government’s demands could also raise costs for airlines that compete to offer cut-price travel. Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025 The European Union’s sales targets for electric vehicles in 2030 and 2035 look impossible, despite the imminent arrival of EVs like BYD of China’s cut-price Surf, likely to be affordable, finally, for average wage earners. Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025 Indeed, the group’s choice of India for its launch is likely a sign of its hopes that the cut-price Nothing (2a) model can encroach on Apple’s growing market share in the country. Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 5 Mar. 2024 The carmaker is the subject of a major EU antitrust investigation into its cut-price cars, with the entry-level Seagull priced at $11,000. Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 1 Feb. 2024 Joyce’s enemies were skeptical of his attempt to re-balance the equation with 1 million cut-price fares and a donation of 1 billion loyalty points to frequent flyers. Angus Whitley, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023 Economic storm clouds still darken the horizon, from shaky Chinese indicators to rising interest rates, and barrels of cut-price crude continue to flood from Iran and Russia. Grant Smith, Fortune, 16 July 2023 Deutsche Bank could be in focus for the same reason that Credit Suisse was until its cut-price rescue by UBS last weekend: Investors are wondering who might be next. Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023 Groupon, founded just two months after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, let people buy cut-price vouchers for restaurants and consumer goods. Chon Tang, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cut-price
Adjective
  • China leads the global production of cheap goods made in large volume, such as dishes and cooking gadgets.
    Pablo Robles, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
  • With police turning a blind eye, Portland became a honeypot for local and out-of-state addicts to score cheap dope and use it freely.
    Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • On Thursday, company executives unveiled an inexpensive, spartan electric truck that comes at a critical time for U.S. consumers and the industry.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Tier 1 includes inexpensive generics, like blood pressure drugs that have been on the market since the 1980s.
    Peter Ubel, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Tesla has been teasing an affordable vehicle for a long time.
    Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Kimberly Casamento recently began a TikTok series walking viewers through recipes from a cookbook that was focused on affordable meals published in 2009.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But looking at the right benchmarks shows that post-neoliberal economic policy—evident to a large degree in the actions of the Biden administration—righted the ship and kept the country afloat and sailing at a reasonable clip.
    Jennifer M. Harris, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Read has pleaded not guilty, denied killing O'Keefe and alleged she is being framed, attempting to sow reasonable doubt in prosecutors' claims and asserting that someone else killed O'Keefe and had ties to and influence over the investigation.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2025

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“Cut-price.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cut-price. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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