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It looks like a Lifetime movie, but the payoff is optimistic in what it says about human nature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 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

A sensible reflex, but it also means the long-awaited payoff never quite materializes—an underwhelming finish to an otherwise engaging and illuminating argument.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

“It’s still not obvious to investors what is the actual payoff in revenue being created in AI for the amount of capex spending,” said Anthony Saglimbene, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

But as her father said, sometimes you had to take a calculated risk in order to earn the payoff.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau

Though higher limits help, he said the bigger opportunity is making sure workers know about the financial payoffs for these accounts.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

That creates new pressure on AI’s big spenders to show payoffs from AI investment soon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

During her morning news conference, she seemed to mock some of the U.S. evidence, including hand-written ledgers allegedly denoting payoffs to Mexican politicians.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 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

The horses were almost all long shots, because no one trusted what Smith was doing, but that just made the payoffs for Howard’s bets all the greater.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand