How to Use pay-as-you-go in a Sentence

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• Our federal income tax is pay-as-you-go.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• There’s also a pay-as-you-go plan for $15 per GB.
  — Justyn Newman, PC Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
• Tapedeck is a pay-as-you-go music download and streaming service.
  — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 9 June 2026
• The event is free with pay-as-you-go options for food and beverages, rides, bounce houses and vendor booths.
  — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 29 June 2026
• In many places, pay-as-you-go iPhones need a physical SIM card still.
  — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming with new pay-as-you-go option.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 8 Sep. 2026
• Developers can access Muse Code through a pay-as-you-go option.
  — Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026
• The technology behind pay-as-you-go Pay-as-you-go insurance takes the concept one step further.
  — Maria Williams, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
• So the city must find legal ways to exert front-end pressure on spending, including pay-as-you-go oversight, and hands-on tight accounting.
  — Larry Wilson, Oc Register, 25 Aug. 2026
• The afternoon will include music, vendors and a pay-as-you-go crawfish station ($20 per serving).
  — Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 13 May 2026
• Public cloud rewards bursty, variable demand, but for always-on workloads, pay-as-you-go premium and data egress fees compound fast.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
• Both programs are, and have always been, pay-as-you-go, where taxes collected from current workers fund benefits for current retirees.
  — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2026
• Whenever caps on discretionary spending or pay-as-you-go requirements threaten to bite, the label becomes something more.
  — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2025
• More expensive induction cookers are financed through carbon credits and short-term pay-as-you-go plans that spread payments over several months.
  — ABC News, 6 Sep. 2026
• The company adjusted the price of a subscription in 2024, offering a pay-as-you-go rate.
  — Tyler Jett, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
• With pay-as-you-go calls, call costs can become significantly higher across traditional wireless networks.
  — Wyles Daniel, jsonline.com, 17 Aug. 2026
• Rather than investing heavily in physical devices up front, businesses adopt a flexible, pay-as-you-go approach where costs are more predictable.
  — Vadim Vladimirskiy, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• Regardless of provider, all calls, texts, and data usage will be treated as international maritime roaming— and charged at expensive pay-as-you-go rates.
  — Erica Silverstein, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2026
• Clarify any rollover logic, pay-as-you-go (PAYG) rules or minimum commitments.
  — Griffin Parry, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Most pay-as-you-go services like Copilot Cowork allow limits to be set on both individual users and the organization as a whole.
  — Chris Stegh, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
• Social Security operates primarily as a pay-as-you-go program.
  — Martha Shedden, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
• Today, prepaid and pay-as-you-go policies are rewriting that playbook—letting drivers start coverage on their own terms and budget, often without a big deposit or long commitment.
  — Maria Williams, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
• Germany’s pension proposals are responding to population aging, a shrinking workforce, and pressure on a pay-as-you-go pension system.
  — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
• Expect similar pay-as-you-go pricing at other in-mall attractions, from mini-golf to VR experiences to indoor water parks.
  — Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026
• Critics of Social Security have long compared the pay-as-you-go structure to a Ponzi scheme, in which early investors are paid with money from later ones.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026
• The bottom line Prepaid and pay-as-you-go insurance represent a growing shift toward flexibility in financial life.
  — Maria Williams, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
• If consumers balk enough at paying more, especially if use cases prove to be underwhelming to many, there will be a future where AI is pay-as-you-go, Tzuo said.
  — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
• Since there are plenty of locations where eSIM support is restricted, for instance excluding pay-as-you-go phones, this would be a surprise.
  — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
• One month later, Netflix House Dallas opened in the Galleria Dallas mall, with the same free-to-enter, pay-as-you-go model.
  — Kate Springer, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
• For residents in busy states like California or New York, pay-as-you-go policies appeal to urban dwellers who drive sparingly but still need proof of coverage.
  — Maria Williams, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025