accrue
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The other bill, SB 878, would have required insurers to respond to claims in writing and pay them within 30 days, including for total losses, or pay interest that would accrue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
There is no equivalent class in college and so no college credit to accrue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
It warned the company would "likely accrue" more than £900m in penalties over the next five years.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“There’s this concept out there that if your testosterone number is higher, then all these magical benefits will accrue to you, and it’s simply not true.”
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2026
He knew the praise was premature, but the banquet hinted at the greater glory that would accrue to him at fair’s end, provided of course the exposition met the world’s elaborate expectations.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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“While most claims for exclusion are for modest amounts, the bulk of the excluded gains, and thus tax savings, accrues to high-income individuals making large exclusion claims,” the Treasury economists wrote.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
“History suggests that transformative technologies create enormous value—and much of that value accrues to the companies that build and deploy them, and to the investors who own them,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
When the amount accrues to $250,000, including interest, do I give him that money or should he have the $250,000, plus whatever interest is paid?
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 7, 2025
That judgment, which accrues interest, is now valued at more than $485 million, according to USA Today.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024
When the initial stress is produced by tightly wound wire, a similar gain of strength accrues.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
"Since April this year, I've paid off in the region of £450 and I've accrued over £500 in interest," says Charlotte, a physiotherapist in Bristol.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
The agency had already stepped up cost-cutting to pay down debts accrued during the pandemic, he added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Adelkoff said she had accrued the vacation time over 40 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
According to the American Bondholders Foundation, this outstanding debt now exceeds $1 trillion, thanks to accrued interest and penalties.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
But he had also spent those same years marveling at the benefits that accrued to anyone willing to pose for posterity in the mythical mode.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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"The definition has been kept so vague that almost any benefit accruing to a person can be considered or argued to be an allurement," said Abhay Thipsay, a retired Bombay High Court judge.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The company has also been accruing fines as air regulators demand the company take additional steps to mitigate the smell and vermin that has been drawn to the site and surrounding neighborhoods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
In October, Paramount is scheduled to begin accruing ticking fees that it would pay to Warner shareholders that amount to $650 million a quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
But that could change , and in the meantime my loans are still accruing interest.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
The contract provided that all monies accruing to Malcolm X “shall be made payable by the agent to ‘Muhammad’s Mosque No. 2,’ ” but Malcolm X felt this was insufficient.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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