incur
verb (used with object)
to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious).
will incur
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future tenseof incur.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Each stage of that process will incur expenses such as transport and storage, and rising costs at any step could end up in the product you buy being more expensive.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
And now a warning: you will soon be entering the withdrawal phase of your retirement having made a humdinger of your accumulation phase, and that will incur taxes.
From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026
Blanchett, 44 years old, instead keeps his family’s investments in accounts that will incur capital-gains taxes when he sells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Paramount has $54 billion in bank financing and $47 billion in equity for the merger, but will incur nearly $80 billion in debt.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
He will incur the certainty that here and there his own perspective of American affairs and persons will be false, or his own touch unsympathetic.
From Abraham Lincoln by Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron
