owe
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Their line, she said, is this: “The law is the law, and if you owe the money, you owe it.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Holding a student-loan balance increases your debt-to-income ratio, which is a comparison of how much you owe each month to how much you earn.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman wrote that a founder could still owe tax if he takes out a loan against his shares from the state and if the company fails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
"I also wasn't expecting the reaction that I got, which was, 'You owe me.' That's all she said, and she walked out."
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
“I owe it to you to help you. You didn’t get an ending and I didn’t even get a beginning.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
“I know how it feels to waive rent someone genuinely owes you,” he adds.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Six years after graduating from a four-year program with a chemistry degree, Alexander Chamberlain-Clay, a 28-year-old software engineer, owes about $110,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
His acquisition of the Lakers had marked the end of an era in the NBA, whose modern popularity owes much to the franchise's 1980s heyday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
In exchange, the government owes that person treatment equal to that of others born on its soil.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Dr. Anderson has concluded that television’s lure owes its powerful appeal to two parts of attention that often compete: the top-down system and the bottom-up system.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
He directed the agency to notify employers backpay may be owed to H-2A workers and U.S. farmworkers if the new applicable rates exceed what they were paid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
In published third-quarter financial accounts to 31 March, United confirmed they owed £405.75m in outstanding transfer fees, £171.14m of which was due after more than one year.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
FedEx has already received about $800 million in refunds, but has booked $749 million as liabilities owed back to customers whose tariff payments it can trace.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
Alonso said Delta Finance is owed hundreds of millions in unpaid services fees and dividends that were never disbursed by the government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
To some of them, she owed something that she hadn’t paid yet, like Windy and Stewart, or Cousin Eunice.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
The firm has led an eye-watering rally by tech firms over the past year and in October became the first to hit a market capitalisation of $5 trillion owing to scorching demand for its chips.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
But it adds negotiations over police protection for the family "may reopen" owing to their permanent residency in the UK.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Unitree’s robots are already familiar to hundreds of millions of Chinese owing to their appearances on nationally televised Lunar New Year programs in which they have danced and performed kung fu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
But out of all the co-creators and producers’ names listed in the drama’s credits, it’s Lindelof’s that heightens our expectations, owing to his outstanding success with his 2019 reinterpretation of “Watchmen.”
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
She was a disagreeable little woman, no longer young, who had quarreled with almost everyone, owing to a temper which was self-assertive and a disposition to trample upon the rights of others.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
