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Recent Examples of payroll But Governor Gavin Newsom and the California legislature pushed the obligation onto the states’ employers, who now are forced to pay higher payroll taxes for every employee until the debt is paid off. Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 7 Jan. 2026 The Supreme Court clarified that the attorney general’s civil investigative demand for payroll records alone did not pause the statute of limitations, but the legal resistance to it did. Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2026 Atlanta could, in theory, both clear payroll for next season and improve in the short term. Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 7 Jan. 2026 Somehow, Washington or the commercial sector would have to reboot, restoring data on payroll, salaries, taxation, human resources, intelligence, law enforcement, military deployment, and more. Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for payroll
Recent Examples of Synonyms for payroll
Noun
  • The Big Ten’s seven-year deal, with Fox as the primary rights-holder that sub-licenses inventory to NBC and CBS, expires at the end of the decade.
    Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The cost of buying a home in the US has surged in recent years, fueled by historically low inventory and mortgage rates above 6%.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Both indexes snapped three-day losing streaks.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Ohio had the largest drop on the index, falling 29 positions to 43rd as a net-loss state in 2025 after ranking 14th as a net-gain state in 2024.
    Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Chan added a majority of California counties require public comments when agenda items are heard.
    Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 6 Jan. 2026
  • But Bacerra said this year, OCFA staff pulled the item off their November agendas, despite the board not traditionally holding meetings in December due to the difficulty in reaching a quorum during the holidays.
    Sean Emery, Oc Register, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Maduro also added constitutional law expert Bruce Fein to his legal defense team, according to a notice on the court docket on Tuesday.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Following a year of contentious disputes from the radio to the court docket, rapper Drake has been hit with a class action lawsuit.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Build a live, searchable directory of Lagos fashion capacity—minimum order quantities, lead times, specializations—and connect it to wholesale marketplaces and diaspora retail partners.
    Essence, Essence, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Reporters relied on church and minister directories to confirm Assemblies of God affiliation and excluded cases in which no clear connection could be established.
    Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The funniest part of BookTok fame has been seeing fans discover how extensive her bibliography is.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Hilton Als, a staff writer who has written about Baldwin many times, joined us to share a few essential entries from Baldwin’s bibliography.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And this year, the housing and mental health nonprofit produced a compilation film, Changing Minds Young Filmmaker Festival, made up of winning submissions from its long-running Changing Minds initiative.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Watch the compilation above to see four stepdads experience life-changing moments of love and belonging.
    Ronnie Li, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Bellarmine played a significant amount of zone defense, especially in the first half -- partially due to its limited roster but also as a challenge to UCA, who prefers to take three-point shots.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Jan. 2026
  • People who can build a culture and a roster quickly.
    Mac Engel January 9, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Jan. 2026

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“Payroll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/payroll. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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