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repay

[ri-pey] / rɪˈpeɪ /




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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

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

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

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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