owe one
Example Sentences
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You also owe one to the many teachers who spend their days trying to build up those students you spent seconds tearing down.
From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2023
We owe one another solidarity as we assess the economic and political power of the forces arrayed against us.
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2022
Not just life and death, age and loneliness, but also stickier questions about compassion and care, about what we owe one another and what we are owed ourselves.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2022
Instead, he’s trying to reconcile the ongoing tension outlined in Catholic social teaching, between solidarity and subsidiarity, between what the state owes its people and what those people owe one another.
From Slate • Feb. 17, 2021
Nor do our men owe one jot or title of their inspiration to individuals on the other side of the water.
From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Canby, Henry Seidel
