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as in reimbursed
to make a return payment to
I repaid my friend the $20 he had lent me
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as in reciprocated
to make a return for
how can we ever repay your kindness?
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Recent Examples of repaid
Sharon Epperson, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
Other funds will come from MTA debt sales repaid with revenue from a congestion pricing toll that charges motorists to drive on Manhattan’s busiest streets.
—Gregory Korte, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Any unemployment benefits received will likely need to be repaid if workers receive backpay after the shutdown ends.
—Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Investors and economists normally shrug off the furloughs of nonessential federal employees because they are repaid and return to work when the shutdown inevitably ends.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
There’s a clear level of trust between Daniels and Henderson, and that was repaid as Henderson turned two different catches into long touchdowns.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2025
And yet, for their labor, they are repaid with fear and betrayal.
—Israel Melendez Ayala, Time, 16 Sep. 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.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
So if bankruptcy hits one of these borrowers, MSDL is first to be repaid.
—Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
However, experts say that a debt management plan generally has a less negative impact on your credit score, as your debt is repaid in full.
—Sharon Epperson, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
Other funds will come from MTA debt sales repaid with revenue from a congestion pricing toll that charges motorists to drive on Manhattan’s busiest streets.
—Gregory Korte, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Any unemployment benefits received will likely need to be repaid if workers receive backpay after the shutdown ends.
—Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Investors and economists normally shrug off the furloughs of nonessential federal employees because they are repaid and return to work when the shutdown inevitably ends.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
There’s a clear level of trust between Daniels and Henderson, and that was repaid as Henderson turned two different catches into long touchdowns.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2025
And yet, for their labor, they are repaid with fear and betrayal.
—Israel Melendez Ayala, Time, 16 Sep. 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.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
So if bankruptcy hits one of these borrowers, MSDL is first to be repaid.
—Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repaid
Verb
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Repairs are reimbursed $20 per tire.—
Brian Sloan,
CNBC,
8 Oct. 2025
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Unfortunately, bank customers aren't always reimbursed when they're hit by some scams, including when they're deceived into making a payment to a con artist, such as in a romance scam.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
8 Oct. 2025
Verb
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His character is in love with Lindy, but it’s mostly not reciprocated.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
14 Oct. 2025
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Hawkeyes fans often reciprocated with a full moon in broad daylight.—
Scott Dochterman,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The Foundation paid the bills; no one at the Foundation got any barbecue.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
12 Oct. 2025
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The money could not be paid to a member of one’s family, including in-laws.—
Kate Wolffe,
Sacbee.com,
12 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Eventually, though, Indigenous trade networks carried the shells thousands of miles, from the Pacific Ocean to the Great Plains, and were exchanged with tribes such as the Lakota and Ojibwe, where the shells began being used as a form of adornment, and even currency.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
13 Oct. 2025
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Randrianirina said his soldiers had decided to stand with protesters and had exchanged gunfire with security forces who were attempting to quell weekend protests, and one of his soldiers was killed.—
NPR,
NPR,
13 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The seaside site in Gloucester satisfied all these criteria.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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Stein provided one that satisfied her ambitions and perhaps mitigated a sense of mediocrity.—
Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Are the rights holders of the shows now being carried on additional platforms being compensated?—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
12 Oct. 2025
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Those pressure points have only amplified the calls from within the GOP conference for Johnson to reconvene the chamber, if only to move legislation to ensure the troops are compensated.—
Mike Lillis,
The Hill,
12 Oct. 2025
Verb
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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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