cost-effective
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Also, rail isn’t as cost effective as seaborne tankers—especially for the so-called teapot refineries in northeastern China, the main buyers of Iranian crude.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
Meta and Broadcom’s jointly developed application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs, are unlikely to be as powerful overall as Nvidia’s graphics-processing units but could be more cost effective for running the company’s ranking and recommendation systems.
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
“While we are developing more cost effective models, it is absolutely urgent that we get people off our streets immediately,” Herman said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026
Producing it directly from exhaust gases could make carbon reuse more practical and cost effective.
From Science Daily • Jan. 29, 2026
The average annual cost, effective and non-effective, of an officer in the cavalry, artillery, engineers, and infantry is £473, this sum covering all the arrangements for pensions and retiring allowances.
From Britain at Bay by Wilkinson, Spenser
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