repaid 1 of 2

past tense of repay

repaid

2 of 2

adjective

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Recent Examples of repaid
Adjective
So if bankruptcy hits one of these borrowers, MSDL is first to be repaid. Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Her 13 senior appearances last term, including first starts in the Champions League and WSL, repaid their faith. Megan Feringa, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025 Alas, there are some debts that can’t be repaid. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025 The agency began issuing overpayment notices on April 25, 2025 and would start withholding 50% of the recipient's benefits after about 90 days (or approximately July 24, at the earliest), until the overpayment is repaid. Mike Snider, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025 It’s expected the bond would be repaid through revenue created by the stadium over the next 30 years. Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025 Sweat says her station can't risk spending money on the project without a guarantee it will be repaid. Michael Copley, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025 The company borrows at a low interest rate today to buy BTC but grants lenders the right to be repaid in stock instead of cash if the share price rises above a preset level. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025 The defense also noted bankers and insurers independently evaluated the numbers, and the loans were repaid. Jennifer Peltz, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repaid
Verb
  • The Kentucky Hospital Association says new restrictions on how much hospitals can get reimbursed could endanger 20,000 jobs, losses that would land disproportionately hard in Eastern Kentucky.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Here, experts explain how to be reimbursed for the loss.
    Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Filming in South Korea Kim feels a deep connection with Korea through his family’s heritage — and the affinity has been reciprocated.
    Sara Merican, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Hilty has suggested several times that her psychiatrist reciprocated her feelings, with her chatbots offering her words that appear to validate that assertion.
    Angela Yang, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Busta also paid tribute to the late MTV VJ Ananda Lewis, who died in June at 52 years old after first being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020.
    Stacy Lambe, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The trade has paid immediate dividends for Boston.
    Jim Bowden, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Blue Moon, written by Robert Kaplow (2008's Me and Orson Welles) was inspired by the real letters Larry and Elizabeth exchanged, as a title card in the movie states.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The Scream star bent down to share an embrace with the rock icon and exchanged some words.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • He was sentenced to 50 days in jail, which has already been satisfied by time served following his arrest, and five years probation.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Packers satisfied a major need by adding an elite pass rusher.
    Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The problem is that those players are in high demand, and most of them are well-compensated by the team that employs them (see OG Anunoby, Jalen Johnson, and Jalen Suggs).
    Mat Issa, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Players would likely be compensated for contributing their name, image, and likeness to the game.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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 11 Sep. 2025.

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