paid off
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Participating in the festival paid off in other ways too.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Following that advice would have required nerves of steel as the market initially pulled back at the outbreak of war but then paid off as stocks surged to record highs moving into June.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
Speaking at the ceremony, she told the BBC she had funded the first event out of her own pocket, "against my mother's judgment... but it paid off".
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
That strategy paid off in 2019, in New Prime v.
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
The effort paid off Monday night when a racially mixed group of 200 people gathered in the school auditorium for the first “arena session.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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