discharged

Example Sentences

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It requires borrowers to make regular minimum monthly payments of $10 and to be paying back their loans for 30 years before being discharged, unless they are in public service.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

He hopes to be discharged from hospital "within the next few days".

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

He was initially taken to hospital but later discharged and taken to a London police station where he remains in custody.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

The entire visit was so fast my husband didn’t even have time to finish parking the car before we were discharged.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2026

I think he was well inclined toward stubbornness, and contemptuous of failure, long before his conscription into the war and the strange circumstances that discharged him from it.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver