payoff

Example Sentences

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As Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin has found, education raises women’s wages as well as the payoff for staying attached to the workforce.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

“If they get things right, the payoff is huge.”

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Using a credit-card payoff calculator can help create a plan to pay it off as soon as possible.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Bill is a genius in terms of setting something up in a previous episode so that there’s a payoff in the finale.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

From 1980 to 1996 he averaged two discoveries a year–not a huge payoff for hundreds of nights of peering and peering.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson