liabilities
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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"A deal that would be good for the workforce, represent good value for money and would not repeat the mistakes of the past and risk creating new structural equal pay liabilities."
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
“Beef” links the potential liabilities women face by locking into long-term relationships to the realities of the capitalist trap, which draws women into not only unpaid housework but uncompensated emotional labor, too.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
Some of the SpaceX-specific liabilities appear to be tied to prepayments for launch.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
About $3 trillion of the liabilities are so-called excess reserves of banks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Indeed, Dobzhansky recognized that natural variation was a vital reservoir for an organism—an asset that far outweighed its liabilities.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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