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English word

cost

A1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /kɒst/US /kɔːst/
noun

the amount of money that you need in order to buy, make or do something

verb

if something costs a particular amount of money, you need to pay that amount in order to buy, make or do it

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Sentence 77 · Pro
Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)
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That same grid probably is offering the world really low-cost energy, isn't it, compared with now?

Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)

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Um, and so we figured out a mission that would cost about $15 to $20 million—which isn't a lot of money—but um,

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders LectureSentence 83 · Pro

This exponentially growing gap between demand for computing and the capabilities of computers, if not addressed, would eventually stifle every industry through computing energy consumption, cost inflation, and more.

Jensen Huang's Speech at CaltechSentence 89 · Pro

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