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That could triple the financial payoff for shareholders, including Burry, whose investment firm owned 2 million shares.

With that profile as backdrop, the few advertisers already on the app are now hoping the work they’re doing now leads to a big payoff down the line.

From Digiday

The companies asking for body photographs and videos think the payoff is worth the exposure.

Now, however, opting into one of those services provides random companies with a lot more information than they need about you for almost no payoff.

These areas of open ocean beyond the territorial jurisdiction of any nation are generally considered high-effort, low-payoff fishing grounds, yet fishers continue to work in them anyway.

From Quartz

Critics accused Foster of giving Duke a payoff to stay out of the race; that was never proven.

If we enter with science and respect, the payoff will last generations.

They liked the way [the alternate ending] made the audience feel rather than just having a big payoff.

The risk of being wrong was small, but the potential payoff for being right was amazingly high.

He wants “more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.”

De Quille had not missed the opportunity of his comrade's absence to payoff some old scores.

A cosmic pitch like this could bring a galactic payoff, whatever it might be.

"Now it's all over but the payoff," thought Jerry, waiting for Mr. Bartlett to make out the grocery slip.

And frequently no one suspects the direction the payoff finally takes.

It puts a premium not on salesmanship, but on what it needs most—intellectual production, the research payoff.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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