Example Sentences

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Last month, a Washington Post investigation found the agency overpays landlords by millions of dollars every year because it doesn’t check to ensure subsidized rents are in line with market rates.

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2023

The DWP estimates it overpays £160m in carer's allowance a year and is now trying to claw back some of that money.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2018

The two biggest contracts of the offseason, signed by first baseman Eric Hosmer and pitcher Yu Darvish, already look like overpays, as neither has impressed this year.

From Slate • Aug. 7, 2018

Typically the acquirer overpays for the synergies on offer, exaggerates or overestimates them in its lust to justify a deal, or botches the subsequent integration of the organisations.

From Economist • Nov. 13, 2014

I have received your letter of the 23d, and it certainly overpays me, when you thank instead of scolding me, as I feared.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace