unaffordable

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Recent Examples of unaffordable Rising home values, skyrocketing insurance costs, and the overall unaffordable housing situation here are squeezing households. Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025 Pakistan also has increasingly unaffordable electricity, with power prices more than doubling in the last three years. Betsy Joles, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025 That means the impact of unaffordable medicine hits us especially hard. Jerri Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025 At some point, California will need to stand up to its powerful public-employee unions and pare back these unaffordable benefits. The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 17 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unaffordable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaffordable
Adjective
  • These generous subsidies were always a wildly expensive and irresponsible fix for the exorbitant premiums that Obamacare itself brought about.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Most companies were growing like crazy and offering what at the time seemed exorbitant comp packages for new talent.
    Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • People are describing empty markets, or markets where items are just cost-prohibitive and far too expensive.
    Kaity Kline, NPR, 18 Sep. 2025
  • With the most prohibitive debt burden across all generations and high rates of unemployment, young people are overwhelmed.
    Muskaan Arshad, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Chevron bought Texas in 2001 for $36 billion at a time when the Permian position was considered a depleted afterthought before the shale revolution unlocked reservoirs previously considered uneconomic.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Agreements should include mechanisms to renegotiate or exit if compliance becomes impossible or uneconomical.
    AJ Dhaliwal, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Russia is trying to paint Ukraine as the unreasonable party in negotiations, Ferris said.
    Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Darryl Morin, national president of Forward Latino, a Latino advocacy group based in Franklin, Wisconsin, said the decision erodes Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
    Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s e-mail newsletter turned e-commerce platform, monetized an all-natural life style, promoting raw-goat-milk cleanses and expensive organic cosmetics.
    Clare Malone, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Drone dilemma The US excels at building large, expensive weaponry, but most American soldiers lack the know-how for fighting with unmanned systems.
    Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • By resolving payment mismatches, ESCROWPay™ aims to eliminate the costly burden of inaccuracies, lost checks, and refunds, a problem that has cost carriers millions each quarter.
    Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The Dolphins have shown some fight in their last two contests, nearly beating the New England Patriots and Buffalo Bills, but costly mental errors led to losses in both games.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Low User Adoption Due To Poor Onboarding The primary hurdle is often low user adoption due to poor onboarding and a steep learning curve.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The hidden gem is packed with steep deals on cool-weather necessities at shockingly reasonable prices.
    Jamie Fischer, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • India's secondary market looks overpriced as compared to other emerging markets.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Not having to carry a soggy sandwich from the house to the office, or fork out for an overpriced meal deal, the study found that remote workers are also more likely to eat more fruit and vegetables, as well as more homemade meals.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Unaffordable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaffordable. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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