as in paying
to give what is owed for
offered to spring for dinner for the whole gang
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One suggested paying for outside services, such as privatized tutoring.—
Megan O’Matz,
ProPublica,
8 Oct. 2025 -
Fabrication costs and retail markups also mean buyers are generally paying above spot prices.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
8 Oct. 2025
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Despite paying off blackmailers and marrying Lady Olivia Hedges (Danielle Galligan) to protect his secret, Arthur still loses his father’s Parliament seat after getting caught committing election fraud.—
Lynsey Eidell,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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This approach is already paying off in some high-impact areas.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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The president had previously been adamant about Harvard paying up, as a few other schools have done, to end federal actions against it.—
Lexi Lonas Cochran,
The Hill,
5 Sep. 2025
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Still, many are not convinced that is a good reason for Medicaid to continue paying up to a five-fold premium for public ambulance service providers relative to private competitors.—
Patrick Gleason,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Springing (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/springing%20%28for%29. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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