payoff

Example Sentences

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General Mills rose 8.5% after the Cheerios maker said it’s seeing payoff after a year of cutting base prices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026

A couple of derivatives-market experts told MarketWatch that, given the heavy volume, these contracts were likely being used to help manage risk, rather than to play for a moonshot payoff.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026

The payoff is access to a younger audience.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

He offers her a generous payoff to stay quiet, and she tells him, in so many words, to stick it.

From Salon • May 29, 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