incur
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Incur 1% in annual fees, though, and you’ll end up with barely $76,000—one-quarter less.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
In this type of situation, a “Motion to Incur Additional Debt” would need to be filed and a fee paid.
From Encyclopedia.com • Jun. 26, 2018
The reaction to the photo was probably over the top—“Pre-Peeled Bananas Incur the Wrath of Humanity,” Time’s NewsFeed blog declared, tongue in cheek.
From Slate • Oct. 9, 2012
Forbear; abstain from slaughter; lest thyself Incur the anger of high thund’ring Jove.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
Incur, in-kur′, v.t. to become liable to: to bring on:—pr.p. incur′ring; pa.p. incurred′.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Vocabulary lists containing incur
Make a Run for It: Cur, Curs
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
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