incurred
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Lauren Meadows, whose videos about motherhood have earned her 256,000 followers on TikTok, has posted several about medical debt she incurred from baby deliveries and hospital stays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
According to Barb's most recent accounts, for the period up to September 2025, it incurred a £36.2m loss and had £10.5m in net assets.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Clippers president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank was suspended without pay for six months for “his involvement with the impermissible endorsement arrangements and for approving impermissible expenses incurred by Mr. Leonard and his family.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
But EDL, charged with maintaining the grid, is tackling large debts incurred during the expansion and due to consumer subsidies.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
He climbed it and in so doing opened the palm wound he’d incurred banging against the battery well’s metal flange with Kabuo Miyamoto’s fishing gaff.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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