payoff
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This seems useful: the computer taking on work that plodding through yourself takes your time but brings no emotional payoff or personal growth.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
The payoff is a vanity project like no other, except maybe Saddam Hussein’s commissioned Victory Arch of swords in Baghdad, or Kim Il Sung’s North Korean Mansu Hill Grand Monument.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Or are you looking to expedite the payoff so that you don’t have mortgage debt for he rest of your life?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Meanwhile, activists like McCollum have expanded their focus to opposing all hyperscale data centers, taking Lavina’s perspective that bigger facilities are not worth the potential economic payoff.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
If the left branch is slender enough, it is generally understandable, albeit top-heavy, with all those words to parse before one arrives at the payoff.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Investors are rewarding companies that are showing clear payoffs from their capital expenditures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
These are derivative contracts whose payoffs are tied to inflation, and the total notional value of the global swap market is in the trillions of dollars.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Levanon has a theory about why the payoffs for advanced degrees have uncoupled: “More degrees chasing fewer of the positions those degrees were meant to unlock.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
In 2008, both Lee Jae-yong and his father resigned after a former Samsung lawyer turned whistle-blower claimed knowledge of a slush fund that was being used for bribes and political payoffs.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
For human biologists, each of these discoveries came with enormous payoffs.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
