incur
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At the same time, it “doesn’t mean you can’t incur business expenses that you enjoy,” he added.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Please provide an itemized list of all costs I will incur, including underlying fund fees and expenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Even if the tariff money were specifically directed at debt service, it wouldn’t have done much to defray the roughly $1 trillion in interest the government will incur this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Each stage of that process will incur expenses such as transport and storage, and rising costs at any step could end up in the product you buy being more expensive.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Some real estate agents worry that the hyper-rich will resent the tax, but so far wealthy homebuilders seem to regard it as a pittance compared with the other costs they incur.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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Paramount argues the plaintiffs should be on the hook for financial damages the company incurs while fighting the lawsuit—including a $7-million-a-day ticking fee that kicks in if the deal isn’t closed by Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
If LA28 incurs massive financial losses, the city would cover the first $270 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Encrypting and decrypting your traffic as you go about your online business incurs a cost, resulting in a speed hit on your connection.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
The key drawback to the strategy is that selling the stock incurs a capital gain, and few investors like paying capital-gains taxes, even if it makes sense from a risk-management perspective.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
Also, even if a dangler is in no danger of being misinterpreted, enough readers have trained themselves to spot danglers that a writer who leaves it incurs the risk of being judged as slovenly.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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A government that will chase its own citizens for taxes incurred in 1999 has forfeited any argument that 1938 is too long ago to matter.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
He was later released on a $5,000 bond, which paired with the $1,000 bond he was already out on for a harassment charge he incurred in Montgomery County on Nov. 18, 2025.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
The project has incurred upfront costs, but they are expected to amortize as lawyers spend less time repeating instructions and readding documents, lowering Harvey’s inference costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Carradine’s family and estate are seeking unspecified general and wrongful-death damages and compensation for medical expenses incurred during his hospitalization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
I would have had to stick my iPhone in a bag of rice from all the water damage it would have incurred from my tears.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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Paramount is incurring considerable legal fees and deal-related costs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Rather than send wheat to Minneapolis to be processed, incurring high transportation costs, farmers and the state banded together to form the North Dakota Mill, the only state-owned mill in the United States.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
That has allowed the company to raise prices dramatically without incurring much extra cost.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
For more than a decade, the U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Iran sought a threshold nuclear capability, securing the strategic advantages of a nuclear power without incurring the costs of openly pursuing a bomb.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
It occurred to me that I could not remain where I was for long without incurring the risk of an oncoming vehicle coming round that same bend and colliding into my employer's Ford.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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