payback

Example Sentences

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It’s more emotional labor for you, with little actual payback.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 22, 2026

Analyst Siraj Ahmed likes Megaport’s move to create an on-demand GPU pool and thinks the floated payback period of between 16 and 22 months is conservative.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Party leaders declared it payback and boasted about their new fighting spirit.

From Salon • May 1, 2026

Australia's national broadcaster, the ABC, reports the crowd of about 400 Aboriginal people outside the hospital yelled that Lewis needed to face "payback" and accused the police of protecting him.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

The poor guy had no way of knowing that, considering the payback I was expecting from Schultz, a rampaging grizzly couldn’t scare me.

From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman