Thesaurus results for TRADE-OFFS

trade-offs

noun

plural of trade-off

as in exchanges

a giving or taking of one thing of value in return for another a trade-off in which a company got a celebrity spokesperson and a fading star got some much-needed cash

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Recent Examples of trade-offs Detailed safety results released on Saturday should help clarify the trade-offs of adding the vaccine to the immunotherapy regimen. — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026 That represents one of the trade-offs of access in Washington. — Lucas Laursen, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Oct. 2026 Wideband, multiband, and electronically tunable antennas enable multifrequency operation, but each involves different design trade-offs. — New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2026 Those decisions need to be made consciously, with everyone understanding the trade-offs. — Simon Wells, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Almost nine months ago, Donut Lab rolled up to CES with the promise of a solid-state battery for electric vehicles free of the usual trade-offs, ready for mass production within a few months, not a few years. — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2026 For many, being told that life is a series of dark trade-offs in a deadly struggle over finite resources does not sound far-fetched at all. — Via Haymarket Books, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026 As federal investigators try to determine the cause of the crash, island residents are mourning the dead and confronting the trade-offs of life so isolated from the rest of Southern California. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026 The acquisition comes at a time when high food prices are forcing consumers to make economic trade-offs at the grocery store. — Carson Hartzog, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026

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exchanges

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Russia received 25 bodies of Russian soldiers, Russian lawmaker Shamsail Saraliyev, a member of a parliamentary coordination group overseeing the exchanges, told RBC news outlet.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Russia received 25 bodies of Russian soldiers, Russian lawmaker Shamsail Saraliyev, a member of a parliamentary coordination group overseeing the exchanges, told the RBC news outlet.

— Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

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