liabilities

Example Sentences

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Leibowitz developed trading strategies allowing pension funds and insurers to match their future income with liabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

The conventional wisdom is that federal government debt — $39.1 trillion, or a mere $31.6 trillion when accounting for the liabilities owed to itself — is astronomically high.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 23, 2026

Fourth-quarter debt and lease liabilities rose 50% from last year to $156 billion, and the company had another $261 billion in lease liabilities that hadn’t commenced as of February.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

And they merely represent the value of those future liabilities discounted to the present — in other words, the money we’d need to set aside today to meet all those future obligations.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Citra asked as they looked for a parking place—one of the liabilities of taking a car that was off-grid.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman