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layaway

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noun

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Recent Examples of layaway
Verb
There is also a layaway plan for single-day general admission tickets that starts at $50. Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025 Adopted from South Korea as a baby, she was raised lovingly by parents who did their best, recalling a home where household goods were often purchased on layaway. Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
Yet, despite the tannins, Freisa is not a wine to lay away in most examples, but rather one that should be enjoyed early on, often chilled, with soups, seafood or lighter meats. Tom Hyland, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021 See All Example Sentences for layaway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for layaway
Verb
  • Single service handles not stored facing one direction to minimize hand contact with the business end or with the handle facing upright.
    Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Rachel's wedding dress is currently being cleaned, and then will be stored in hopes of future use.
    Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Fifty-five percent of phone shoppers in the United States — including those who purchase flip phones and basic mobile phones — buy their device through an installment plan, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners.
    Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Consumers get approvals at checkout instead of waiting days—think Klarna at H&M or Apple’s installment plans for devices.
    AJ Dhaliwal, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But as the months have passed, Juni has stopped stashing food, loves to nap, and seems so much more at ease.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Where else, the joke goes, would Colorado stash its pitching development lab?
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Stacey, to her credit, is throwing every misdirection possible.
    Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The payout for select customers includes up to $1 of credit to be applied toward future ParkMobile service fees.
    James Peckham, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For Dickinson, the greater challenge lay in finding the right tone to strike around the film’s sensitive subject matter of homelessness and mental health.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2025
  • According to scholar Nadia Margolis, the key to Christine’s success with her various projects lay in her acute awareness of existing in a men’s world with a dramatically unfair power imbalance.
    Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Adult female flies can lay up to 400 eggs at a time, and each larva in a human patient has to be physically dug out from infected flesh.
    Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Walking up the eighteenth hole, Woad laid up into the par-5 finisher before sticking a 3/4 wedge to 2 feet to seal the tournament.
    Mike Fore, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
Verb
  • Shares jumped nearly 9% on the news Friday and traded roughly 2½ times the average daily options volume, with calls outpacing puts by well over 4:1.
    Michael Khouw, CNBC, 21 July 2025
  • Rose picked up well over five strokes on the field on the greens, leading the field in strokes gained putting by a wide margin.
    Justin Ray, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025

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“Layaway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/layaway. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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