Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paying down
Verb
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Shares jumped that session as Wall Street saw that BlackRock’s pursuit of growth outside of its lower-cost stock and bond funds was paying off.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
18 Oct. 2025 -
All the hard work ended up paying off as Handy pulled off his wedding-day duties with ease.—
Michael Nied,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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Microsoft says one group, Octo Tempest, used Teams to taunt victims and pressure them into paying up, showing how personal these attacks can get.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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The president had previously been adamant about Harvard paying up, as a few other schools have done, to end federal actions against it.—
Lexi Lonas Cochran,
The Hill,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Paying down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paying%20down. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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