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repay

[ri-pey] / rɪˈpeɪ /




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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

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

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

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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