paying up 1 of 2

present participle of pay up

paying up

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noun

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of paying up
Noun
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 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 Still, many are not convinced that is a good reason for Medicaid to continue paying up to a five-fold premium for public ambulance service providers relative to private competitors. Patrick Gleason, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 Along with affordable exotics, young collectors are also paying up for supercars, especially rare and highly specific Paganis, Bugattis and Rufs, the boutique German builder. Robert Frank, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025 Unrest over contract matters, Jones playing hardball, absorbing the attention that is as necessary to him as oxygen, then ultimately paying up. Greg Cote august 5, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paying up
Verb
  • David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Coding assistants have been some of the early winners of the generative AI rush, becoming the first real application type to attract a hefty number of paying users.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, individual coverage topped $9,300, on average, this year, up 5% – with employees shouldering $1,440 of the cost and employers paying the rest.
    Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The experiments were paying off.
    Katie Thornton, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • After years of struggling, cattle raisers are paying off debt and building out their operational infrastructures.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The owner doesn’t have to pay the prepayment penalty that is very common in commercial real estate.
    Diana Olick, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Under the agreement reached Friday between the teachers union and the administration, the Education Department will process loan forgiveness for those eligible in certain repayment plans that offer lower monthly payments based on a borrower’s earnings.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • To attract candidates, the agency is offering a range of incentives, including signing bonuses of up to $50,000 and student loan repayment programs.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Advocates warn that new cuts to Medicaid reimbursement rates of 3% to 10% could deepen an existing nursing shortage, forcing families to go without full coverage and pushing some patients into institutions.
    Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Probitkin said Jefferson Health's goal is to maintain an equitable relationship with UnitedHealthcare with fair reimbursement levels that will benefit patients and enable LVHN to continue providing the highest quality of care, regardless of insurer.
    Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Paying up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paying%20up. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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