Example Sentences

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If the stock falls, however, there is a risk they could have paid taxes they wouldn’t have owed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

If Aley had applied those standards to her project, rather than relying on the arborist’s recommendation, she would have owed the state about $22,109, she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2025

I view this expense as an insurance plan that will protect me from losing even more money on a replacement flight, plus the countless quarters I would have owed the curse jar.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2022

About a third of seniors have owed money for care, the poll found.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2022

Madame Eglentyne herself may have owed to one of the many friends, who held her digne of reverence, her “peire of bedes, gauded al with grene,” of small coral.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen