paying
Example Sentences
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Andrew Hernandez, president of the Metro Baseball Academy, shared email exchanges and invoices dating to July demonstrating that the academy had been paying for its use of the athletic fields.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Indonesian authorities raided a prison outside Jakarta Wednesday where inmates have allegedly been paying to live in luxury, emptying several "villas" of furniture, bottles of alcohol and at least one big-screen TV.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Advanced Micro Devices is paying $8.2 billion for a company at the cutting edge of real-world artificial intelligence — but perhaps more importantly, AMD is bringing aboard a visionary leader.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Rob Burrow died in June that year, aged 41, with Prince William among those paying tribute.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
He hadn’t seen this coming, though if he’d been paying attention, he would have, just as if I’d been paying attention, I would have.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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