How to Use indirect cost in a Sentence

indirect cost

noun
  • Getting a large number of moms to quit their jobs would also have indirect costs.
    — Anna North, Vox, 26 June 2025
  • The report explains that this is an indirect cost that ratepayers will pay.
    — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • While direct costs are easy to quantify, indirect costs are not.
    — William Lambers, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The indirect costs of these storms that hit in summer are even harder to calculate.
    — Jeremy Ney, Time, 21 May 2025
  • But the indirect cost of the quake could be much higher, and recovery will be neither easy nor quick.
    — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
  • And there is talk that on grants that are awarded, the indirect cost recovery rates will be reduced.
    — Lucie Lapovsky, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • There may be a number of reasons that mammals pay such high indirect costs for being pregnant.
    — Carl Zimmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2024
  • And then there are the long-term, indirect costs of an implementation belly flop.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • If states remove vaccine mandates, this could raise direct or indirect costs, the experts said.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This analysis should include both direct and indirect costs.
    — Julian Durand, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The indirect costs help purchase and upgrade state-of-the-art research equipment and technologies.
    — Mitzi Nagarkatti, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2025
  • In addition to health-care and public health response, experts say there are a vast amount of indirect costs during an outbreak.
    — Neha Mukherjee, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The indirect costs of doing research are real and substantial.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The new rule has the NIH capping those indirect costs at 15% of the total grant amount.
    — Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Other indirect costs, related to the cost of fuel and packaging, tend to hit later.
    — Aya S. Chacar, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Other indirect costs, related to the cost of fuel and packaging, tend to hit later.
    — Aya S. Chacar, The Conversation, 6 Apr. 2026
  • And people could face indirect costs if utilities increase customer rates to offset the expense.
    — Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 18 July 2024
  • Without the money to pay for buildings, staff and equipment – all of which can be classified as indirect costs – research can't be done at all.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Those that build placentas, like humans, were found to have some of the highest indirect costs of gestation, at around 96%.
    — Kristina Behr, Parents, 31 May 2024
  • This includes both the direct costs for shelter -- like rent and mortgage payments -- as well as indirect costs for things like furnishings and supplies.
    — John Maxfield, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2017
  • And that figure does not take into account a range of indirect costs, including the effects of slower economic growth.
    — Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Though Loren got a full ride to Spelman, the scholarship will help with indirect costs like books and other expenses.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024
  • And experts expect the public to shoulder indirect costs related to the move, depending on how the saga resolves.
    — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Last year, city officials attempted to figure out just how much the city was spending on homelessness, both in direct and indirect costs.
    — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The biggest surprise came when Marshall and his students found that in many species, the indirect costs of pregnancy were greater than the direct ones.
    — Carl Zimmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2024
  • This can add $50 per hour of indirect cost to the musician, or the musician spent thousands of dollars building their own space in the past.
    — Chris Erhardt, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • And even the consumers that realize the indirect costs of using cards and collecting points feel and frankly are powerless to overcome the status quo.
    — Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • If the indirect costs cap is passed, institutions could collectively stand to lose billions of dollars in their research budgets.
    — Sean Conlon, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2025
  • According to Gallup, the direct and indirect cost of replacing an employee can range from one-half to two times the position’s salary.
    — Victoria Burkhart, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • As these children are not financially independent, deporting their parents can lead to child care costs and other indirect costs that will be borne over time.
    — Mark Humphery-Jenner, Slate Magazine, 27 Feb. 2017

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