owe
verb (used with object)
to be under obligation to pay or repay.
are owing
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present progressiveof owe.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Twenty five years ago, 84 percent of the students were white; today, 43 percent are, owing partly to an influx of immigrants working in technology jobs.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2021
February's wages, £610,000, are owing to players, £120,000 to the club's 60 other employees, and £280,000 to HMRC.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2011
Gaston Caperton, president of the College Board, which administers the SAT, says the racial disparities are owing to differences in educational opportunity.
From Time Magazine Archive
The frequent Failures of the Bark are owing to over small Doses.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
It is to the want of this, undoubtedly, that a great many of the serious accidents are owing.
From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee
