repay
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Kasten took a similar tone when asked about reports of Walter having to repay insurance companies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Andrea feels deep shame when she thinks about the loan she took out a year ago in Buenos Aires that she is now unable to repay.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Figures from the 2025-26 financial year suggest that the amount borrowers owe when they first become eligible to repay has, on average, fallen compared to the year before.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
To repay his former employer and his creditors, he emptied his retirement account and sold his house, his car and the cards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
“I was going to repay it. I can get it back now,” Wash said.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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She repays about £150 a month and said it feels like "a constant burden that is always hanging over your head".
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Onset said it is owed $1.9 billion by First Brands, and has concerns that when the company repays its DIP lenders, it will leave nothing behind to repay those claims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
The money is typically issued within three days, and the platform repays itself by withholding those wages from the user’s next paycheck.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025
On payday, the user repays the money out of their wages.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Nicklin rejected requests by Harry and the others to pay on a standard basis, instead favouring arguments by ANL that its costs should be repaid on a stricter so-called indemnity basis.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
It is unclear whether it will have to be repaid.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Medicare will calculate the amount that must be repaid.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
He repaid the charges after a formal investigation, according to a 2006 article in the Inner-West Weekly, an Australian newspaper.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
But even so, she’d been keeping a running tally of everything she’d ever done for Elizabeth, too, every bit of support she’d given, and now she expected to be repaid.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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Music has given me so much that this album is my way of repaying music for all the blessings it’s given me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Parents who are already repaying loans will lose access to income-driven repayment plans.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Concerns have grown around student debt after a decision by the UK government was made to freeze the threshold at which some English graduates start repaying loans.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Since a pandemic-era pause on student-loan repayments ended in 2023, the federal government has been pushing people to start repaying their loans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
There were harvest expenses staring me in the face, along with trying to finish repaying Uncle Chester’s IOU.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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