payback
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There’s a path to payback with the hybrid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The government is trying to free-up space by reducing the number of short-term prisoners and strengthening community payback orders.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
It’s more emotional labor for you, with little actual payback.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
One could read the entire scripture — both the Old and New Testaments — as an allegory for humanity’s penchant for payback, and God’s many warnings against it.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
As the payback for giving me the dirty finger I said out loud to By, “How many cows you counted, By? How many red cars so far?”
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Enticements for investors are relatively low-cost funds, with annualized management fees typically below 1%, and, of course, immediate paybacks.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026
It often takes 10 years to site, design, construct and commission a conventional PSH plant at a time when private investors are realizing paybacks of 10 years or less from subsidized solar and wind farms.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2023
Besides the pandemic, they’ve had to face economic pressures from rising costs of living, college loan paybacks and an uncertain economy, among other challenges.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
In 2018, it started offering generous paybacks — first at 35% of costs and now 40% — to Hollywood productions that relocate to Athens and smaller cities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2022
“It would put pressure on utilities and telecoms” as well as on companies that consistently increase quarterly paybacks to shareholders, he said.
From Reuters ● Sep. 15, 2017
