at the cost of
idiom
: by giving up or hurting (something else)
She completed the project on time but at the cost of her health.
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The consensus thought was that adding him — even at the cost of Thompson — would take the Dubs, who were knocking on the door of contention in the Western Conference, over the top.
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Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 12 June 2024
The 2021-22 budget used a study looking at the cost of providing services to institute a new rate structure for workers, to be phased in over five years, according to the LAO.
—Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 6 June 2024
Hina’s powers might be able to fix the erratic weather pouring down on Tokyo, but at the cost of her own life.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
Voters understand the need for extreme caution, even at the cost of sacrificing intimacy with constituents, Palacios says.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
More immediately, Ukrainian commanders say, some of the Western weapons supplied to them have failed them at the cost of lives.
—Vladyslav Golovin, New York Times, 25 May 2024
But Kinds of Kindness compels as a deranged look at our need to be loved, even at the cost of submitting to someone else’s insidious control.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
That amendment functionally tamped down residential tax bills, but at the cost of a declining tax base for some local governments and special districts.
—Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 10 May 2024
People believe false conspiracy theories for a wide range of reasons– including the fact that there are real conspiracies, like efforts by the Sackler family to profit by concealing the addictiveness of oxycontin at the cost of countless American lives.
—H. Colleen Sinclair, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2024
Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 12 June 2024
The 2021-22 budget used a study looking at the cost of providing services to institute a new rate structure for workers, to be phased in over five years, according to the LAO.
—Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 6 June 2024
Hina’s powers might be able to fix the erratic weather pouring down on Tokyo, but at the cost of her own life.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
Voters understand the need for extreme caution, even at the cost of sacrificing intimacy with constituents, Palacios says.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
More immediately, Ukrainian commanders say, some of the Western weapons supplied to them have failed them at the cost of lives.
—Vladyslav Golovin, New York Times, 25 May 2024
But Kinds of Kindness compels as a deranged look at our need to be loved, even at the cost of submitting to someone else’s insidious control.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
That amendment functionally tamped down residential tax bills, but at the cost of a declining tax base for some local governments and special districts.
—Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 10 May 2024
People believe false conspiracy theories for a wide range of reasons– including the fact that there are real conspiracies, like efforts by the Sackler family to profit by concealing the addictiveness of oxycontin at the cost of countless American lives.
—H. Colleen Sinclair, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2024
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