incur
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Even if the tariff money were specifically directed at debt service, it wouldn’t have done much to defray the roughly $1 trillion in interest the government will incur this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Each stage of that process will incur expenses such as transport and storage, and rising costs at any step could end up in the product you buy being more expensive.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
It expects to incur pretax charges of about $700 million to $800 million from the restructuring, it said on Monday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
In your later years, you will likely incur higher healthcare costs and perhaps need care at home.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Considering that Dorus makes a little over a thousand guilders a year, it’s a huge expense for the Van Gogh family, one Dorus will later incur for Theo and Cor as well.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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According to Fifa regulations, a red card "automatically incurs suspension from the subsequent match" but the governing body "may impose additional match suspensions and other disciplinary measures".
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
CDs are typically less flexible because withdrawing funds before maturity often incurs a penalty.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
The key drawback to the strategy is that selling the stock incurs a capital gain, and few investors like paying capital-gains taxes, even if it makes sense from a risk-management perspective.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
“Vanderbilt Mortgage does not want anyone to buy a home they cannot afford — when a loan defaults, Vanderbilt incurs significant financial losses,” the company's statement said.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2025
Also, even if a dangler is in no danger of being misinterpreted, enough readers have trained themselves to spot danglers that a writer who leaves it incurs the risk of being judged as slovenly.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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He’d incurred the wrath of Al Davis in a disastrous stint as the Oakland Raiders’ coach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
In written submissions, lawyers for the Duke of Sussex and the other claimants described the costs incurred by the Daily Mail's publisher - almost £34.5m as of 9 July - as "eye watering".
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Singing sensation Cher will be forced to pay the $1 million in legal fees that she incurred during a bitter legal battle against ex-husband Sonny Bono’s widow, Mary Bono, a judge has ruled.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Additional expenses incurred by the Orange County Fire Authority — estimated at $2.8 million — were not included in the $4-million total.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
After a long and bloody encounter in which something like 50,000 casualties were incurred, the Union troops routed the Confederates—but then squandered the best opportunity they’d yet had to smash General Lee’s army decisively.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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The hedge-fund firm Situational Awareness is down around 67% in July after incurring heavy losses on AI stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Rather than send wheat to Minneapolis to be processed, incurring high transportation costs, farmers and the state banded together to form the North Dakota Mill, the only state-owned mill in the United States.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
Wood is concerned that it’s not just their cashflow they are consuming so rapidly, but the rate at which they are incurring debt.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
With his back against the wall, Walt decided to rerelease “Snow White” in theaters, seven years after its 1937 debut—hoping to generate income without incurring new production expenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
It occurred to me that I could not remain where I was for long without incurring the risk of an oncoming vehicle coming round that same bend and colliding into my employer's Ford.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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