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repay

[ri-pey] / rɪˈpeɪ /




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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

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

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

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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