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repaid

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verb

past tense of repay

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of repaid
Verb
But the remaining $10 billion in bonds would be repaid through the state general fund, costing at least $500 million annually for 25 years. — Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026 And that's a real risk with a home equity loan, as the funds will be distributed in a lump sum upfront – and expected to be repaid immediately. — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026 Funds have long used short-term credit lines to move on opportunities before every investor has formally closed, then repaid the facility once capital calls arrive. — Peter Doyle, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026 As the most consistently excellent side in rugby union history, the All Blacks usually repaid any reaction by inflicting a defeat. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Loans that didn't qualify for forgiveness had to be repaid with 1% interest. — Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2026 The school has done so before — in 2022, Hiram repaid over $6 million of loans from its endowment. — Bloomberg, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026 Pell grants, which generally do not have to be repaid, are a key to affording higher education for many lower-income students. — ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026 The Sacramento City Teachers Association President Nikki Milevsky echoed Singh’s position, saying the trust’s funds do not have to be repaid. — Chaewon Chung updated August 27, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repaid
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
  • Campaign finance records show Reyes-Becerra has been reimbursed for around $4,300 worth of travel expenses since April 19.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Settlement details Under the settlement, residents will be reimbursed a series of credits on their property tax bills over the next three years.
    — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In classic diplomacy, protocol giveaways are supposed to be reciprocated by substantive concessions.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Mullally reciprocated, but, in her signature dry humor, proceeded to kick him out of her car.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Many Ducks are certainly going to be better paid than last year.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Her loft was in decent enough shape this past September that Keanu Reeves reportedly paid $45,000 a month to stay there with his partner, Alexandra Grant, while making his most excellent Broadway debut in Waiting for Godot with Alex Winter.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 26 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The two exchanged photos and talked about their goals for the future.
    — Eamon Javers, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
  • A'ja Wilson exchanged words with a fan in Indy after this play.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The Jets tried to trade him during the summer, but were never able to get the deal that satisfied Kevin Cheveldayoff.
    — Max Bultman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Instead of recognizing that a 1-paragraph block is not a 10-paragraph block, the generation engine assumed that formatting the technical specifications neatly satisfied the underlying intent.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • However, the Super Heavy was designed for redundancy, as the remaining engines compensated for the loss.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 Sep. 2026
  • In other words, people have historically compensated for what the data does not say.
    — Sunil Padiyar, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But after years of wooing Silicon Valley, the Defense Department’s interest became requited, with companies like Amazon seeing opportunities to replace the government’s hodge-podge data centers with cloud computing, for which the Pentagon was offering a $10 billion contract prize in 2019.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2025

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“Repaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repaid. Accessed 3 Oct. 2026.

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