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- adj. Superlative form of costly.
Examples
“It is not their costliest car; their costliest is the Corniche, then the Carmargue.”
“The costliest is a $19.4 million effort to stabilize and clean first floors and tunnels in a number of campus buildings.”
“I was in Blr, for a few moths, I too had minimum stuff! the 'costliest' thing we had was our Samsung TV!”
“In comparison, she says the costliest event in 2010 was the Chilean earthquake, which killed 562 people and caused $30 billion in disaster damage.”
Voice of America: 2010 Deadliest Year for Disasters in Two Decades
“The program is the Pentagon's costliest weapons program.”
The Wall Street Journal: Stealth Fighter Jet Exits Pentagon Probation List
“The insured damage from the Joplin tornadoes totaled $6.7 billion, according to Swiss Re, the fifth costliest event of the year.”
The Wall Street Journal: Disaster Losses Hit Record Levels in 2011
“And the 2012 presidential race will be the costliest in American history, with some estimates putting the price of winning the White House at more than two billion dollars.”
The Huffington Post: Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Iowa's a Sideshow: It's Still Romney Versus Obama
“A 41-foot crest in Fargo would be two feet higher than the record level of 39.6 in April 1997, when the area was struck by one of the largest and costliest floods in U.S. history.”
“Since database software development is one of the costliest software development beyond a certain point which MySQL has already crossed.”
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