incur
verb (used with object)
to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious).
is incurring
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present progressiveof incur (3rd person singular).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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Paramount is incurring considerable legal fees and deal-related costs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Lowery said Epirus is incurring significant costs in maintaining its production capacity while it waits for larger orders to materialize.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Mr. Cuticelli says the Ark is incurring “massive operational losses” and is in imminent danger of shutting down.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2018
Leiweke said his group does not envision using any of the city or county’s bonding capacity at this time and is incurring all the cost on its own.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2017
And reason good; for, while the legislation required to impose a tax lingers, the whole mass of the country’s property is incurring the fearful peril of a prostration of the public credit.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 by Various
