repay
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The $3.3 million renovations to that home were also initially paid for by the British taxpayer, however the Sussexes were required to repay that money after stepping down as working royals.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Kasten took a similar tone when asked about reports of Walter having to repay insurance companies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Another hearing will take place to work out how he can repay his victims.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Andrea feels deep shame when she thinks about the loan she took out a year ago in Buenos Aires that she is now unable to repay.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
In the end, Santa sculpts the group’s freewheeling ideas into a few concrete requirements: I have to repay Mr. Davis for the fireworks I stole.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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Guitars take the place of shovels, as Henry now repays Carlos’ kindness by helping to save the land that Carlos assumes is ravaged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
He says he repays his father $954.83 a month for the mortgage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
The money is typically issued within three days, and the platform repays itself by withholding those wages from the user’s next paycheck.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025
On payday, the user repays the money out of their wages.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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For Andrea’s 40th birthday earlier this year, I repaid the favor and requested a video for her from Nell Campbell, who portrayed Columbia, in which she talked about sisterhood — and “Rocky Horror,” of course.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Instead, interest accrues on the loan and is repaid when the home is sold, often when the homeowners pass away.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Nicklin rejected requests by Harry and the other celebrities to pay on a standard basis, instead favouring arguments by ANL that its costs should be repaid on a stricter so-called indemnity basis.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The court said authorities would continue to recover Hui’s illegal gains and that any shortfall would have to be repaid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
"We granted you the comfort of a tower cell befitting your birth and station. You repaid us by trying to escape."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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Music has given me so much that this album is my way of repaying music for all the blessings it’s given me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
But falling behind on repaying your debt doesn’t automatically mean that declaring bankruptcy is right for your household.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Freezing that threshold means graduates start repaying their loans sooner, or pay more as their salaries increase with inflation while the threshold remains the same.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Since a pandemic-era pause on student-loan repayments ended in 2023, the federal government has been pushing people to start repaying their loans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
She wrote that she was repaying a debt, although knowing Nicasia, I would guess a little nastiness wouldn’t give her mother much pause.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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