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Part of the law regarding these prizes, requires the lottery to make sure winners do not owe a debt to the state, according to the state lottery.
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Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 30 Aug. 2025
The world doesn’t owe us a thing.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 25 Aug. 2025
Thousands of medications owe their development to natural sources, but many experts argue there may be a wealth of drug possibilities hidden in the ocean.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
The album is lush with 1980s-era synthesizers and vocals that owe more to Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, and Toto's David Paich than to Ronnie Milsap, Conway Twitty and Alabama's Randy Owen.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
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Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 30 Aug. 2025
The world doesn’t owe us a thing.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 25 Aug. 2025
Thousands of medications owe their development to natural sources, but many experts argue there may be a wealth of drug possibilities hidden in the ocean.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
The album is lush with 1980s-era synthesizers and vocals that owe more to Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, and Toto's David Paich than to Ronnie Milsap, Conway Twitty and Alabama's Randy Owen.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for owe
ignore
Verb
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Still, sometimes the heat is impossible to ignore — evident in the small sweat stains on Dinkel’s blue collared shirt.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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Carrie Severino, president of the conservative advocacy group Judicial Crisis Network, previously told the Washington Examiner that the justices have made recent orders more explicit and clear as lower court judges have ignored the Supreme Court’s previous orders on its emergency docket.—
Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Owe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/owe. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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