as in depositing
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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The recruits then travel to pick up duffel bags of bulk cash from cocaine sales, with each depositing hundreds of thousands of dollars at ATMs into the bank accounts of the fake companies.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
28 Jan. 2026 -
Temozolomide—the standard of care for glioblastoma—works by depositing a methyl group onto the DNA of cells, specifically on guanine, one of DNA’s four base molecules.—
Isabella Backman,
Hartford Courant,
27 Jan. 2026
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The page gave a deep snort, hocking a chartreuse wad against the root of the nightingale’s birch.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
19 Nov. 2025
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Shein is far from the first online retailer to run into trouble with third-party vendors hocking controversial wares or flouting policy standards.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
3 Sep. 2025
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Second and third mortgaging the house.—
David K. Li,
NBC news,
30 Dec. 2025
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“Pawning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pawning. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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