become indebted

“I have never become indebted to anyone during my time in politics,” Lee said at a news conference last month.

"I need to reclaim my work. I am a barber in Gaza, and I've been trying to figure out how to repair the damage to my salon and restart my business. I've become indebted to so many people, and I can't afford to buy the simplest things for my children," he added.

According to Pujol, many young recruits become indebted to the gang leaders.

Orna feels complicit in her own victimization because she’s allowed herself to become indebted to Benny; to be afraid for her own career; to wear her hair long when Benny said she should let it down.

I guess when you spend a life riding waves—knowing that the ocean is heartless and millions of times stronger than you are, but still trusting that you're skilled enough or brave enough or charmed enough to survive it—you become indebted to the people who don't make it.