repay
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Andrea feels deep shame when she thinks about the loan she took out a year ago in Buenos Aires that she is now unable to repay.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
To repay his former employer and his creditors, he emptied his retirement account and sold his house, his car and the cards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Cloth is also accused of engaging in a Ponzi scheme by using the acquired investor funds to repay prior investors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
The change would result in students starting to repay their loans sooner than they would otherwise have done, and their rising salaries leading to greater repayments.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
“You did this,” you said, shaking your head, wondering how you would ever, ever repay him.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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She repays about £150 a month and said it feels like "a constant burden that is always hanging over your head".
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Though the diary entry concedes that Mansfield was “so intelligent & inscrutable that she repays friendship,” the two women wouldn’t become friends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
His brave and inspiring column revealing his ongoing battle with Parkinson’s disease repays that debt, and then some.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2025
The money is typically issued within three days, and the platform repays itself by withholding those wages from the user’s next paycheck.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025
See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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It is repaid if a candidate polls more than 5% of the total number of valid votes cast in the constituency.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Medicare will calculate the amount that must be repaid.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
He repaid the charges after a formal investigation, according to a 2006 article in the Inner-West Weekly, an Australian newspaper.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
By 2014, the program as a whole actually had made money for taxpayers, as the losses were outweighed by repaid loans from companies that had found success.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
To finance their arms purchases, the Allies had borrowed more than two billion dollars from American banks, a debt that would never be repaid if Germany won the war.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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Music has given me so much that this album is my way of repaying music for all the blessings it’s given me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Borrowers forfeit their collateral in 35% to 45% of transactions with Ezcorp’s stores for not repaying the loan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Freezing that threshold means graduates start repaying their loans sooner, or pay more as their salaries increase with inflation while the threshold remains the same.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
I’m not clear why you have to borrow the money if you intend on repaying it within two years; if you do have accessible cash, you could try borrowing against your existing house.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026
I sort of helped rescue him from Luke’s demon cruise ship a few years ago, and ever since, he insisted on repaying me with favors.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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