prohibitively
- a word derived from prohibitive.
Example Sentences
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Americans now spend tens of billions of dollars a year on their animals, and in a country where raising children has become prohibitively expensive, many people lavish their pets instead.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
While small numbers of private taxis and buses continue to serve other cities, they are prohibitively expensive -- up to 200 times the price of the state alternative.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
That puts it at an advantage in the current artificial-intelligence era, the company said, because it can “provide novel, high-value data that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive or altogether unattainable” for training models.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
Today’s humanoid robots may be klutzy and prohibitively expensive, but another quarter of a century of research will transform them into essential home assistants, says Brendan Englot, director of the Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
Since the federal budget that year was less than $7 million, the critics seem to be right when they conclude that the costs were not just daunting but also prohibitively expensive.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
