Example Sentences

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For the privilege of keeping the liability off their balance sheet, they are incurring an additional 1.5 percentage points of financing costs.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

Smaller programs in particular tend not to have a financial cushion and are incurring late fees and interest, which they are not allowed to use Head Start funding to pay, putting them in financial jeopardy.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025

Speaking to the BBC, he added the £350 "was always meant as a thank-you payment, rather than an exact calculation of the costs that people are incurring".

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2022

“If you want to solve this problem by injecting cement into the dam structure, then you are incurring hundreds of millions of dollars in additional cost.”

From Washington Times • Sep. 2, 2020

It is most infectious, and you are incurring a needless danger.

From The Firm of Girdlestone by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir