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repay

[ri-pay] / rɪˈpeɪ /




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According to the investor group, an equity committee is needed to hold Getty accountable and to repay the legal judgment owed to them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Californians will take on an increased cost of $500 million to $600 million annually to repay the bond for an anticipated 20 years, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

The cost of charging his vehicle saves him several hundred rupees a day, helping repay the loan he took out to buy the more expensive electric version.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

One of the UK's most prolific tax fraudsters has lost his appeal against a judge's order to repay more than £90m he gained through his crimes.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

I do not regret pulling out the leaves of this book to make a lesson-book for my friends, though I approach its end: Their pleasure and assiduity repay me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

She repays about £150 a month and said it feels like "a constant burden that is always hanging over your head".

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

He says he repays his father $954.83 a month for the mortgage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

His brave and inspiring column revealing his ongoing battle with Parkinson’s disease repays that debt, and then some.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2025

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

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

His answer wasn’t charity but financing: Let ordinary people buy diversified capital on credit, repaid from the capital’s own earnings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Vista Equity Partners, which acquired the company in 2016, had planned an initial public offering in 2024 that would have repaid or extinguished the debt, but the deal failed to launch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The investors are repaid with the interest paid on the loans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

In a subsequent phone call, he repeated that he would not pursue an untruthful claim and said he would arrange for the £250 down payment to be repaid.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

His exertions were repaid by Calpurnia with the offer of coffee and an invitation to supper, both of which he accepted.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Tata Sons sought to get out of this classification by repaying their debt and arguing that they do not borrow directly from the public markets.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

In a time of rising costs, the danger is repaying old debts by using new debts and not breaking the cycle, said Rossman.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

In London, roughly one in six of the city’s working-age population is estimated to be repaying a student loan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

At Truman, it’s like he’s repaying a debt.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove


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