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have cost

  • present perfect of cost.

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But as always with FIFA, money speaks the loudest, so Infantino’s norm-shattering behavior over the last year doesn’t seem to have cost him much support.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

"Had we ordered it a week and a half later, I think it would have cost us nearly £1,000 more," she said.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

“We figured out it would have cost us about $3 million to get an endorsement and coverage like that if we paid for it.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 2026

In the cramped Netherlands, he said, such a plot would have cost at least $1 million.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

Farmer was aware of what his critics would say: why blow $150,000 on antibiotics that, if you’d waited a while, would have cost you a fraction of that?

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French