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verb

past tense of prepay

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Recent Examples of prepaid
Adjective
Get up to $300 in statement credits semi-annually for up to a total of $600 in statement credits per calendar year on prepaid Fine Hotels + Resorts® or The Hotel Collection bookings through American Express Travel using the Business Platinum Card®. Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 2 June 2026 One of the nation’s largest class action claims administrators has agreed not to accept rebates from prepaid card issuers, banks or other vendors amid criticism that claims administrators have secretly profited from class action payouts. Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 In real life, though, prepaid phones can serve people who need flexibility or safety. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026 Switching to a prepaid plan or an MVNO that uses the same towers your phone already connects to can deliver immediate savings that keep adding up year after year. Jon Stojan, USA Today, 8 May 2026 And for buyers who have the means, purchasing mortgage points — essentially prepaid interest that costs about 1% of the loan amount can also lower your rate. Aly J Yale, CBS News, 6 May 2026 Alagappan joins the senior-focused, prepaid mobile wireless provider after serving as CTO at software-as-a-service provider Circles. John Kell, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026 People familiar with the situation say Airbnb has agreed in talks with the city to pay $50 million in prepaid occupancy taxes. Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026 Earlier this week, T-Mobile's Mint Mobile prepaid brand announced a plan with 5G home broadband and phone service for $45/month, days after AT&T announced a similar OneConnect bundle. Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prepaid
Adjective
  • Not all pads are alike, but a footprint on the larger side involves five to ten acres of cleared, packed ground that serves as the hub for drilling equipment, which can include wellheads, pump jacks, tanks, wastewater storage pits, trailers, and flare stacks.
    Alex Heard, Outside, 4 Mar. 2026
  • What counts as a cleared sidewalk?
    Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 1 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Early-aughts nostalgia paid off better than ’80s, as Masters of the Universe’s box-office numbers trailed behind the horror spoof.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 June 2026
  • Eight software companies have paid off their term loans in full this year, including Worldpay, whose roughly $5 billion in loans left the index after Global Payments acquired it.
    Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
Verb
  • DeSantis expected that much of the cost of Alligator Alcatraz would eventually be reimbursed by the federal government.
    Eric Schlosser, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • The government later reimbursed the perpetrators (investment bankers) with a $700 billion bailout.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 4 June 2026
Verb
  • Bangladesh Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed ordered that the buyer be refunded and the animal be relocated to the national zoo in Dhaka.
    Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • Mohammad Ponir Hossain/REUTERS Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed ordered the animal to be spared, and the person who had purchased it for sacrifice to be refunded.
    Arshad R. Zargar, CBS News, 28 May 2026
Verb
  • Funding for the project was generated by issuing debt in the form of a certificate of obligation — essentially a loan repaid with tax revenue.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 June 2026
  • Other states also borrowed money to keep benefits flowing during the pandemic, and all but California have repaid their loans.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 3 June 2026

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“Prepaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prepaid. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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