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repay

[ri-pay] / rɪˈpeɪ /




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Creditors typically engage with financial and legal advisers when they perceive a risk that the company they lent to might not be able to fully repay them on schedule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Has she agreed to a plan to repay him?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Oracle has said its board governance committee reviews Ellison’s pledging arrangements quarterly, and that it has determined he can repay his personal loans without having to sell pledged shares.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

To repay Bono, would you care to spill any of his personal business?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

“What of you? I owe you a great favor—how can I repay it? Ask anything and it is yours, should it be within my skill.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Guitars take the place of shovels, as Henry now repays Carlos’ kindness by helping to save the land that Carlos assumes is ravaged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Though the diary entry concedes that Mansfield was “so intelligent & inscrutable that she repays friendship,” the two women wouldn’t become friends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 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

The convertible notes essentially are loans that turn into company stock instead of being repaid in cash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The investors are repaid with the interest paid on the loans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

The complaint says Epstein helped Indyke buy homes in New Jersey and Florida, paid for fertility treatment for him and his wife and gave him $7 million in loans that were never repaid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Most insurers are solvent, and most private loans get repaid.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

His exertions were repaid by Calpurnia with the offer of coffee and an invitation to supper, both of which he accepted.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

This year marks a decade since the first students in their year started repaying.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Barely half of borrowers made even a single payment last year, mostly because their earnings fell below the repayment threshold, exempting them from repaying at all.

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

Parents who are already repaying loans will lose access to income-driven repayment plans.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

“I’m repaying you. You saved my life. Let’s call it even.”

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce


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