How to Use cost-benefit in a Sentence

cost-benefit

adjective
  • Some of it is just cost-benefit analysis.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • As a cost-benefit analysis, Wolfers said, the math is easy.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
  • That is not a cost-benefit analysis.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • The cost-benefit didn't pencil.
    — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
  • Art schools, like all schools, are wobbling under the illogic of the cost-benefit math.
    — Katy Siegel, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • Do not look at life purely from a cost-benefit analysis standpoint.
    — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2024
  • So where the cost-benefit analysis doesn’t add up, grocery stores often don’t open.
    — Luke Fountain, Charlotte Observer, 13 June 2024
  • One way to assess that is to look at an economist’s tool set called a cost-benefit analysis.
    — Anita Alves Pena, The Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Leaders tend to project their own cost-benefit logic onto opponents who do not share it.
    — Monica Duffy Toft, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2026
  • And the higher the value of the sale, the cost-benefit versus a card transaction is greater.
    — Paul Marcantonio, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Part of this process is thinking carefully about the cost-benefit trade-offs of expressing your anger.
    — Laura Rees, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025
  • In those cases, taxes become part of the cost-benefit equation, but are not a deal-breaker.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • For Iran, the cost-benefit analysis seems to make the choice obvious.
    — John Miller, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The cost-benefit equation doesn’t account for moral hazard, either.
    — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The higher number flips the cost-benefit equation in favor of requiring trucks to have side guards.
    — A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 13 June 2023
  • Hence the winners and losers here will be determined by their cost-benefit performance for business.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • As new information emerges, the cost-benefit profile changes.
    — Ryan Gray, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Grace is not bemoaning the state of the modern game as much as appraising the shift in its cost-benefit analysis.
    — Zach Buchanan, New York Times, 28 July 2023
  • The cost-benefit ratio is in North Korea’s favor at the moment.
    — Daniel Depetris, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2024
  • This cost-benefit is significant for e-commerce.
    — New Atlas, 16 Nov. 2025
  • People who face these issues may have a different cost-benefit analysis.
    — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
  • The state resolved last year to conduct an in-depth, cost-benefit analysis of its data center industry and tax break.
    — Lulu Ramadan, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2024
  • There is a third way to see how badly the deregulatory cost-benefit framing misfires—one that works from the bottom up rather than the top down.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • The video shows Kennedy questioning Spellmon about costs and cost-benefit analyses of flood control projects.
    — USA TODAY, 9 May 2023
  • Travel experts suggest travelers should perform a cost-benefit analysis to see if the price of lounge access is worth the perks.
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The modern world forces us to waste time doing cost-benefit analyses of various inconveniences.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The structures that the United States has for making those decisions tend to use cost-benefit analyses.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 19 June 2024
  • The project has been decades in the making, but the state audit said the agency should have conducted a cost-benefit analysis before board approval.
    — Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
  • At some point, every household that wants Netflix will have it, and the cost-benefit ratio of securing what few holdouts are left no longer works.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025
  • In a few cities, cost-benefit analyses showed returning to nature was cheaper than maintaining concrete culverts.
    — Jim Morrison, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023

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