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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
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Noun
  • For stores, these codes help streamline the checkout process, reduce pricing errors, and help with inventory.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Median single-family home sale price is $409,500 Many would-be homebuyers have been priced out of the market due to constraints on inventory, prices that have surged over the last five years and elevated mortgage rates.
    Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • During both the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, the strongest brands fell less, recovered faster, and ended up higher than market indices.
    Steven Wolfe Pereira, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • In stock markets abroad, indexes were mixed amid mostly modest movements in Europe following some sharper swings in Asia.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The president’s pursuit of a deeply conservative agenda for the arts unleashed unprecedented chaos at the nation’s premiere performing arts center, resulting in massive upheaval and wave after wave of prominent artist cancellations.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The agenda includes a full day of educational programming, followed by two days at the exhibit hall for retailers, brands and industry professionals.
    Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Transcripts of the cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control audio released in the NTSB investigation docket revealed what was said inside the aircraft in the moments before the crash.
    Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The denial effectively clears the way for the administration to seek emergency relief from the Supreme Court, potentially placing the dispute on the justices’ fast-moving emergency docket and setting up a high-stakes test of presidential power over federal prosecutors.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Poets & Writers has a detailed directory of agents and the magazine often publishes profiles of agents as well as advice from them.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • When working with large ecosystems of code, define explicit directory structures.
    Joe Toscano, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
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
  • In fact, the compilation is the only project by the band to crack the top 10, although several other favorites have come very close.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Throughout the compilation of clips, Kristy smiles and smolders in the mirror while using a bottle of the luxury brand's Libre Berry Crush perfume.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Green is one of three quarterbacks on the American roster, along with LSU's Garrett Nussmeier and Illinois' Luke Altmyer.
    Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Sanders was not selected as one of the four alternate selections at quarterback when the rosters were first announced.
    CBS News, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026

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“Payroll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/payroll. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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