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The best of them, such as “Goodbye, It’s Over,” about the butchering of a pig, rail against the cheapness of life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

As the market digests Big Tech’s ambitious artificial-intelligence spending plans for 2026, the relative cheapness of Microsoft’s stock underscores a new dichotomy in technology investing.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 9, 2026

The best news of all is that the cheapness hasn’t vanished, meaning the stock gains haven’t lifted the valuation.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

“Plan 9” endures not in spite of its cheapness, but because of it.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2025

The closet of which it forms a part has everything to condemn it, and only its cheapness and its apparent cleanliness, and the habit of the world in its use, to commend it.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various