be paid
Example Sentences
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The trust funds were a way of cumulating workers’ aggregate tax payments to ensure an equal sum would be paid out again, in aggregate, at some point.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
“It is a shortsighted approach to asset management that invites long-term risk—a strategic failure that will ultimately be paid for by future generations of students and the long-term health of the endowment itself.”
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
The men and women who enroll will be paid for their time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
The first year of work is expected to cost £220,000 and will be paid for through public fundraising.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
Instead there is everything you might eat if eating had no bodily consequences—the cheese fries, the chicken-fried steaks, the fudge-laden desserts—only here every bite must be paid for, one way or another, in human discomfort.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
