repay
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The law requires lenders to judge borrowers based only on their ability to repay a loan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
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
Primary care is a slow way to repay it, so fewer doctors choose the field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Guiteau always had an excuse to explain why he couldn't repay a debt and needed to borrow again.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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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
He says he repays his father $954.83 a month for the mortgage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
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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Instead, interest accrues on the loan and is repaid when the home is sold, often when the homeowners pass away.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Nicklin rejected requests by Harry and the other celebrities 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 represented about 60% of all tariff revenue collected by the government under the policy, with significant amounts still to be repaid.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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
When the astronauts broke through the atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific, we were repaid with an electrical storm.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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In London, roughly one in six of the city’s working-age population is estimated to be repaying a student loan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
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
But falling behind on repaying your debt doesn’t automatically mean that declaring bankruptcy is right for your household.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 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
I sort of helped rescue him from Luke’s demon cruise ship a few years ago, and ever since, he insisted on repaying me with favors.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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