indebted
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Ionesco’s brand of absurdism is indebted to classic French farce, which is redeployed in lunatic fashion to lampoon the nonsensical nature of human existence.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
Global Payments, 4.7 times earnings, and Fiserv, seven times, are heavily indebted players in a decidedly unsexy part of fintech: processing card payments for merchants.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
He emphasized that he doesn’t want people becoming indebted to the IRS because of their beliefs.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
The firm focuses on heavily indebted companies, offering loans to some while buying and shorting bonds of others—often supersizing its trades.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Now I shall be wholly indebted to my daughter-in-law, I thought.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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Bless Me, Ultima
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