How to Use indirect cost in a Sentence

indirect cost

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  • It's thought to cost the U.S. about $56.5 billion a year in direct and indirect costs, the study authors note.
    — Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 24 Jan. 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
  • Of that money, about $9 billion went to indirect costs.
    — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 then there are the long-term, indirect costs of an implementation belly flop.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Parents struggling to care for a child on the autism spectrum have the stress of direct costs -- such treatments and therapies -- and indirect costs, like loss of income for parents who need to work less, or not at all.
    — Katie Parsons, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 July 2018
  • The indirect costs of doing research are real and substantial.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2025
  • These sources cover both the direct medical costs and the indirect costs of each condition; for instance, one paper estimates the total cost of chronic back pain in the US.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Under its new policy, the NIH would cap indirect costs for all institutions at 15%.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The council approved the salary deal in November with a 23 percent pay increase across five years, adding about $76 million for salary increases, pensions and indirect costs.
    — Dua Anjum, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2025
  • And people could face indirect costs if utilities increase customer rates to offset the expense.
    — Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 18 July 2024
  • In other terms, the indirect costs of bearing a child comprise 96% of the total energy burden of reproduction.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 16 May 2024
  • At the same time, the Trump administration is trying to cap the rate at which the NIH pays for the indirect costs of doing medical research at 15%, which is far lower than the rate that has been paid at many institutions.
    — Rob Stein, NPR, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Direct costs relate to the value of fuel and time wasted, and indirect costs refer to freight and business fees from company vehicles idling in traffic.
    — Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The ambassadors’ cherry-picking method—to focus solely on deaths of service members and line-item budget costs—is to ignore the considerable indirect costs of war, costs that can’t be wished away.
    — Adam Wunische, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Some funding sources, such as the Department of Agriculture, tend to pay lower rates, with perhaps a 30 percent premium going to indirect costs.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Other indirect costs of traffic, such as food truck operators’ also being stuck in traffic, comes to $45.6 billion per year.
    — Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Some researchers had guessed that indirect costs — that is, the energy females use to fuel their own bodies while pregnant — might come to only 20 percent of the direct energy in the baby’s tissues.
    — Carl Zimmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2024
  • Each of the counties hope to get some compensation for the indirect costs of opioid use — like the tobacco settlements years ago that continue to generate funds for Idaho and other states.
    — Audrey Dutton, idahostatesman, 15 Apr. 2018
  • In addition to indirect costs not being included in the official budgets, some direct operating costs end up off the books as well.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 26 July 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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