payback
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It’s more emotional labor for you, with little actual payback.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
American Consumer Credit Counseling, a nonprofit that works with credit-card companies to reduce interest rates and monthly payments for people in debt, helped her devise a payback plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
One could read the entire scripture — both the Old and New Testaments — as an allegory for humanity’s penchant for payback, and God’s many warnings against it.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
Many people outside the hospital shouted that Lewis must face "payback", public broadcaster ABC reported, referring to a traditional punishment in central Australian Indigenous communities.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
And then in a higher tone she repeated, "The big payback!"
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
Enticements for investors are relatively low-cost funds, with annualized management fees typically below 1%, and, of course, immediate paybacks.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026
It often takes 10 years to site, design, construct and commission a conventional PSH plant at a time when private investors are realizing paybacks of 10 years or less from subsidized solar and wind farms.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2023
Besides the pandemic, they’ve had to face economic pressures from rising costs of living, college loan paybacks and an uncertain economy, among other challenges.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
But it has long been clear that the net metering paybacks are overly generous, even lavish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
“It would put pressure on utilities and telecoms” as well as on companies that consistently increase quarterly paybacks to shareholders, he said.
From Reuters ● Sep. 15, 2017
