Example Sentences

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The aim is to reduce monthly payments by amortizing the loan over a longer period.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

Even with low-interest loans and crop insurance payments, many farmers are turning to amortizing past debt, according to Joe Brannen with the Georgia Bankers Association.

From Fox News • Feb. 27, 2019

The WGA contends the per-week income of writers is declining because studios are amortizing pay over longer production periods as shows become more cinematic and take longer to shoot.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2017

The Irish move later kicked off a flurry of bond activity in Dublin which included another swap, a first amortizing issue and the pinnacle -- the raising of new long-term debt.

From Reuters • Nov. 13, 2012

It dispensed with all those bothersome little acts of daily courage; it offered hope and grace to the repetitive coward; it justified the past while amortizing the future.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien