owed

as in unpaid
not yet paid finally paid the owed amount

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  • The failure-to-file penalty is 5% of unpaid taxes per month or partial month, up to 25%.
    James Powel, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Ashley Joachim Tellis, an unpaid State Department senior adviser, is facing a felony charge of unlawful retention of national defense information after investigators found more than 1,000 pages of top secret or secret documents at his home Saturday in Vienna, Virginia.
    Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • The Critics Choice Association has announced the nominees for the 10th annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards, honoring the year’s outstanding achievements in nonfiction filmmaking.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Rutherford County earned a reputation for outstanding high school football over the past three-plus decades, and the 2020s could arguably be the best era yet.
    Cecil Joyce, Murfreesboro Daily News Journal, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Owed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/owed. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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