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repay

[ri-pay] / rɪˈpeɪ /




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Funds could not be used for legal or defense purposes or to repay personal loans, nor could they be pulled from education, transportation or public safety buckets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Much of the remaining $1 billion had been ordered as restitution, meant to repay victims’ losses.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

The Education Department has urged borrowers to repay the country’s more than $1.7 trillion federal student-loan portfolio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

If she did receive an overpayment but can’t afford to repay it, she can request a waiver on grounds of hardship or fairness.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Complicated financial stuff was being dreamed up for the sole purpose of lending money to people who could never repay it.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

He says he repays his father $954.83 a month for the mortgage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

While a higher interest rate does not affect the amount someone repays each month, it makes it harder to reduce the size of the loan, meaning the borrower could repay more over time.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 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

Independent drivers operating with thin cash reserves struggle to cover thousands of dollars in upfront fuel costs while waiting to be repaid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

These gifts create an intangible, everpresent debt to be repaid.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

He said this was the value of the items and cash he had provided to the museum in recent years which had not been repaid.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

A Turkish court in 2023 ordered the seizure of a digital wallet holding more than $100 million, from which Kaul says her losses would have been repaid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

“I was traded in for the price of six goats and a cow for my eldest sister's wedding. My parents promised they'd come back to get me as soon as they repaid him.”

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed

Barely half of borrowers made even a single payment last year, mostly because their earnings fell below the repayment threshold, exempting them from repaying at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

"The public debate tends to focus on total hypothetical debt accrued, as opposed to what students actually end up repaying," the university said.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Parents who are already repaying loans will lose access to income-driven repayment plans.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

She wrote that she was repaying a debt, although knowing Nicasia, I would guess a little nastiness wouldn’t give her mother much pause.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black




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