paid off
Example Sentences
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Participating in the festival paid off in other ways too.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
I have over $3 million in IRA and taxable assets, not including my house, which is nearly paid off and carries a low-interest mortgage, and I am looking forward to a peaceful next chapter.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
All-out attack is rarely a winning recipe in US Opens, but at the Riviera Country Club it very nearly paid off for Charley Hull.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
That strategy paid off in 2019, in New Prime v.
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
“So that Christmas Henry brought him home, into the house, and the demon looked up and saw the face he believed he had paid off and discharged twenty-eight years ago. Go on.”
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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