cost-effective
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This combination could make long-duration missions to Mars more practical and cost-effective.
From Science Daily • May 6, 2026
Musk believes that orbital data centers can be as cost-effective as land-based centers in a few years.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
Yaroslavsky credits Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe program for ridding her district of big homeless encampments, but said more data is needed to ensure the programs are cost-effective.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
AI power users see them as a cost-effective way to run local large language models.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
But a PIH doctor spoke up, saying that he had signed the Hippocratic Oath to practice medicine ethically, but he didn’t remember signing an oath to do it in a cost-effective way.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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