as in deposited
to leave as a guarantee of repayment of a loan
he pawned his antique watch in order to pay off his gambling debt
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Herman had his clients’ settlement funds deposited into his trust account, as is standard, then never turned over the money to his clients.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2025 -
His most glaring mistake came in the bottom of the fifth, when Seiya Suzuki deposited a fastball that caught too much plate in the left-field bleachers.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Others see it as a money grab in which the country is being mortgaged in the name of fighting criminal gangs.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
15 Aug. 2025
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Masha confesses to an affair with married army officer Vershinin (James Lewis), while Andrey admits to having mortgaged the family home, without his sisters’ consent, to pay his gambling debts.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Pawned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pawned. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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