How to Use amortize in a Sentence

amortize

verb
  • Its costs for bandwidth are then amortized across the life of its fiber and routers.
    — Ryan Singel, WIRED, 16 Oct. 2009
  • The interest rate is fixed, and the balance is amortized over the term of the loan.
    — Jeff Lazerson, Oc Register, 5 June 2025
  • The monthly light bill would now be the cost of their microgrid amortized over the life of the system.
    — Tracy Price, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • After all, the equipment has been amortized and the unit economics are good.
    — Kyle Stock, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
  • The loan amortizes over 10, 15, 20 or 30 years.
    — Jeff Lazerson, Oc Register, 14 May 2026
  • The asset will be amortized on a straight-line basis over a seven-year period.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2024
  • One proposal is to amortize how much insurers pay over time, like a home mortgage.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 12 May 2024
  • The cost of that operating system has to be amortized over that network.
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The warrants are priced at fair market value on the date of vesting and amortized over 10 years.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The group says the price tag can be paid through a municipal revenue bond that would be amortized over 30 years.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Buying in bulk will drop that cost, but that’s still a hard price tag to bear, even on a fleet vehicle that can amortize costs over years of service.
    — Alex Davies, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2018
  • According to Weinstein, the cost for the concierge has more than amortized itself over the years.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The early pickup will allow the conglomerate to amortize the cost of the show over two seasons.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Because with renewable energy like solar and wind, most of the cost of the life of the project is right up front, and that gets amortized out.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The rules only apply to the IRA being amortized.
    — Elliot Raphaelson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
  • Prop houses and studios could amortize this cost by leasing the equipment out to other productions.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Ellis said reuse allows the company to amortize the high shipping costs across many launches.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2024
  • There’s still overhead, Dally said, but with complex instructions, it’s amortized over more math.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Moreover, the buyers can amortize their purchase price, often over 10 to 15 years.
    — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
  • In European soccer, the transfer fees are amortized across the length of player contracts.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Teams pay out bonuses coupled with lower base salaries to start the deals, and the bonuses are amortized through the life of the contract for cap purposes.
    — Tim Kawakami, The Athletic, 23 Aug. 2024
  • That's great when amortized compared to other methods but the upfront cost may simply be out of reach for too many lower income people.
    — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The group calls for passing a bond that would establish a standalone enterprise fund, with costs amortized over 30 years.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Costs may be fixed, such as amortizing a factory, equipment or other overhead that does not vary with the amount of output produced.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 23 June 2019
  • But the exhibits can operate with minuscule staff and development costs can amortize to nothing the longer a tour goes on.
    — Curbed, 5 Apr. 2023
  • More passengers per flight amortized the cost of expensive planes, fuel and flight crew more effectively.
    — Michael Barnard, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The group says the price tag can be paid through a municipal revenue bond that would be amortized over 30 years and pledges to support union workers.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • What gets lost amid the forest of dollar signs is that Dak wants a four-year deal and the Cowboys want five, the better to amortize the cap hit.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 26 May 2020
  • Within a few years, the fully amortizing mortgage with equal monthly payments had become the standard for the industry.
    — Jack Guttentag, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Few vehicles have been such cash cows for their makers, either; consider how long ago the R&D for that platform must have been amortized.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 July 2019

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