become indebted
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“I have never become indebted to anyone during my time in politics,” Lee said at a news conference last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025
The returned letter was one which he had sent enclosing a check to a Dr. Hartley, to whom he had become indebted for professional services at one time.
From The Wolf's Long Howl by Stanley Waterloo
Speculation was even more rampant, and rising men were willing and were able to become indebted for enormous sums, having no security to offer but the promise of their future career.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Anthony Trollope
Either party by violating these terms was to become indebted to the other to the amount of one hundred thousand guilders.
From The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa by Paul Barron Watson
There are indeed few great poets who have not in some way become indebted to the inexhaustible treasure of Boccaccio’s creativeness.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
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