pay off
Example Sentences
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While there is hope that Rutte's tactics will pay off again in Ankara -- among some there is a sense that it's just a sticking plaster solution.
From Barron's • Jul. 6, 2026
"He said he needed to pay off his death duties of his mother after she'd died earlier that year," she said.
From BBC • Jul. 4, 2026
Software companies were struggling to pay off private loans even before the SaaS-pocalypse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 3, 2026
Investing in the artificial-intelligence trade takes nerves of steel these days, with ever-cloudy visibility into whether all the money being invested will ultimately pay off.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 2, 2026
He had told his investors that they might need to be patient—that the bet might not pay off until the mortgages issued in 2005 reached the end of their teaser rate period.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
