Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pay (for)
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Monthly Dividends: Main Street Capital Corp. (MAIN) Business development companies (BDCs) allow average investors like us to invest in private companies without having to pony up a million bucks.—
Brett Owens,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025 -
The standard is 12 to 15 percent of the annual rent, so a person signing a lease on a $3,049-a-month apartment in Clinton Hill — the median asking rent for a Brooklyn one-bedroom — will have to pony up somewhere in the neighborhood of $5,488.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
17 Apr. 2025
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The trip taken by Garcia, Frost, Ansari and Dexter is not being financed by taxpayer dollars, according to a news release.—
Sudiksha Kochi,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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And while Volcker was allegedly tightening credit, innovative financiers like Michael Milken were financing Schumpeterian-style corporations like MCI at rates south of the Fed funds rate.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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Hera adds a couple orders of magnitude in our understanding of how much energy DART expended in its kinetic impact and what that capability provides for planetary defense.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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In Ukraine, both sides have already expended extraordinary resources, and neither is close to anything that resembles a victory.—
Lawrence D. Freedman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Pay (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pay%20%28for%29. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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