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Recent Examples of prohibitive
Trade-war fears have receded to some extent after U.S. and Chinese trade representatives earlier this month agreed to honor the consensus reached in Geneva in May, allowing for rare earth and tech trade between the two countries while suspending prohibitive levels of tariffs on each other.
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Anniek Bao, CNBC, 20 June 2025
China exports heavily to U.S. markets, and Trump’s tariffs on China—which rose to a prohibitive 145% before being temporarily lowered to 30%—left many Chinese and American businesses in a state of uncertainty.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 27 June 2025
While a growing number of listings sit idle in the United States' housing market, as buyers are kept on the sidelines by sky-high prices and prohibitive borrowing costs, multimillion-dollar homes are still going under contract in some of the most expensive parts of the country.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
There are teams that prefer an open style, as The Athletic detailed here, but his wages could be prohibitive, so a loan looks most likely.
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—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 17 June 2025
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Anniek Bao, CNBC, 20 June 2025
China exports heavily to U.S. markets, and Trump’s tariffs on China—which rose to a prohibitive 145% before being temporarily lowered to 30%—left many Chinese and American businesses in a state of uncertainty.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 27 June 2025
While a growing number of listings sit idle in the United States' housing market, as buyers are kept on the sidelines by sky-high prices and prohibitive borrowing costs, multimillion-dollar homes are still going under contract in some of the most expensive parts of the country.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
There are teams that prefer an open style, as The Athletic detailed here, but his wages could be prohibitive, so a loan looks most likely.
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—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prohibitive
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As mentioned in the intro, there are many other bottles of 10-year-old bourbon to try, ranging from must-buy bargains to exorbitant splurges.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
29 June 2025
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Now, what people are upset about, especially in the states, is ever since Obamacare, there's been this loophole that allows the states to actually charge providers an exorbitant amount to pay their share.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
29 June 2025
Adjective
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In making arrests, the federal government allegedly went against both immigration laws and the Fourth Amendment, which protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government, the plaintiffs argue.—
Laura Rodríguez Presa,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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Medical device safety alert: issued in situations where a medical device may present an unreasonable risk of substantial harm.—
Marley Malenfant,
Austin American Statesman,
3 July 2025
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The shortage is one reason people and businesses have fled as housing in popular cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles is unaffordable to the vast majority who want to live and work there.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
3 July 2025
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The state also had the nation's highest share of children with unaffordable medical bills (twice as much as Rhode Island, which had the lowest percentage).—
Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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Hypersonic weapons are expensive and difficult-to-produce systems able to travel at Mach 5—i.e., upwards of five times the speed of sound.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 July 2025
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Each manufacturer has had to write its own version, a slow and expensive process.—
Melanie Marshall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 July 2025
Adjective
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The rapidly dropping cost of inference means that use cases that are uneconomic today may not be six to 12 months in the future.—
Jeffrey Hammond,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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High level indicators of risk include goods being received from unusually complex or apparently uneconomic supply routes, for example, regular supplies of UK produced goods that have been exported from the UK and then re-imported.—
Mark Littler,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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An example of this could be quality control, where a supply chain disruption can have massive (and costly) downstream effects.—
Ed Jennings,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Without proper maintenance, homeowners could face more costly problems down the line.—
Rachel Barber,
USA Today,
11 July 2025
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Since March, the Trump administration has oscillated between implementing and pausing steep tariffs on some of the United States’ largest trading partners.—
Cailey Gleeson,
jsonline.com,
14 July 2025
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In addition to Tha Carter III, Wayne’s recent release Tha Carter VI drops from No. 47 to No. 124, a steep decline just a month into its run.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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The heavier the tax burden gets, the more the tax base erodes, and the less money becomes available for pricey programs.—
Luka Ladan,
New York Daily News,
5 July 2025
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Pricing on TVs this large can get quite pricey (well above $2,000 for higher-end models).—
Parker Hall,
Wired News,
3 July 2025
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“Prohibitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prohibitive. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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