How to Use pay in a Sentence
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How much will states have to pay?
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James Sneed,
NPR,
31 Oct. 2025
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The artists were paid for their work.
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Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
24 Apr. 2026
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There are worse things to pay for.
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Katie McDonough,
Curbed,
12 Jan. 2026
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No one with that job is paid more.
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Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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She would not be paid for this work.
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ProPublica,
13 Sep. 2025
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Her boyfriend paid him back right away.
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Katherine Laidlaw,
HubSpot,
10 Oct. 2025
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Will he be made to pay for his hubris?
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Deborah Treisman,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
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The house was paid for, as was the car.
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Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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And that gets you mad, which pays my bills.
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Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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The grant used to pay her salary had dried up.
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Darlene Superville,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
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The church could pay her about $75.
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Sophie Carson,
jsonline.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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The rest of us pay a lot of money.
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Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
18 Mar. 2026
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But the karma has been hell to pay.
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Miami Herald,
31 Oct. 2025
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His estate got paid and all that.
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Clayton Davis,
Variety,
10 Oct. 2025
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But good things are worth paying for.
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Paul Fadelli,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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As of now, the job pays nothing.
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
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She's paid a very high price already.
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Romina Ruiz-Goiriena,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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Requests to pay fees with gift cards.
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Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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There were more open mics and more paying gigs.
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Bill Gurley,
Fortune,
1 Apr. 2026
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Disney could then pay us back that same amount?
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Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
16 May 2026
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But who's paying for his leave?
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Jennifer McRae,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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Those are the brand of running backs who get paid.
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Dave Hyde,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Apr. 2026
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The amount most consumers will pay will rise even more.
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Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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The release did not say whether the leave was paid.
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Forum News Service,
Twin Cities,
19 Mar. 2026
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The tax question, of course, is how to pay for it.
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Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
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So many of your friends love you, and those that don’t pay them no mind!
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
9 May 2026
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Their parents hadn’t been paid.
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ProPublica,
13 Sep. 2025
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But the Venezuelans pay him no mind.
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The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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So, this is about the cost that people pay for their health care.
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ABC News,
26 Oct. 2025
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Plus, the group still wants health plans to pay for kids’ hearing aids.
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Larry Wilson,
Oc Register,
23 May 2026
- Each pay period begins on the first of the month.
- He has been suspended without pay pending the results of the investigation.
- I took a significant pay cut when I took this job, but I think it was worth it.
- Workers received a $4,000 pay increase.
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The pay was low, but would train her.
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Literary Hub,
11 Mar. 2026
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The pay hike amounts to a buck an hour.
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Susan Tompor,
Freep.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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Congress needs to earn its pay.
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Arkansas Online,
12 Mar. 2026
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What does a pirate pay for his hook and his peg?
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Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
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Those who stayed put saw a slight pickup in pay gains.
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Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
4 Feb. 2026
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Here’s a peek at some locals who aim to play for pay.
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Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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The strike concerned what the unions saw as a small pay raise.
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Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Aug. 2025
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There are 16 steps in the city’s pay structure.
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Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
3 June 2026
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That’s a big portion of our monthly take home pay.
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Lisa Hagen,
Hartford Courant,
25 Feb. 2026
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Your pay raise will be the same as everyone elses.
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Roberta Matuson,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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But pay fell off a cliff along with unionization rates.
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Ann Larson,
Time,
11 June 2026
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State law ties their pay each year to the rate of inflation.
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Ben Szalinski,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
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But the optics weren't great, and the refs made Griner pay.
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Zach Dean Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
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That means closing the gender pay gap.
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Teresa Ghilarducci,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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This fall, voters could weigh in on whether to raise teacher pay.
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Mary Jo Pitzl,
The Arizona Republic,
3 Mar. 2024
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The store said co-pays are waived for most insurance plans.
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Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Those teachers have since been rehired on part-time pay.
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Nuria Martinez-Keel,
Oklahoma Voice,
12 May 2026
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Is pay-per-mile car insurance worth it?
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Liz Knueven,
CNBC,
20 Feb. 2026
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Ken Chlouber worked there as a shift boss, and the pay was good.
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Alan Gionet,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Hiring and pay raises have stalled.
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Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
7 Nov. 2025
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Its cash-pay option will start at $149 a month.
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Annie Palmer,annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
9 Jan. 2026
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The total pay shown is the sum of gross pay on state worker pay stubs for each year.
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Sacramento Bee Staff,
Sacramento Bee,
11 Feb. 2025
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That’s the median of the upper half of the pay scale.
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Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
29 Aug. 2025
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To be sure, gig workers’ low pay is a real problem.
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Andrew Garin,
Fortune,
19 Mar. 2026
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Those numbers show why Reaves will be searching for a big pay raise.
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Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
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My effective tax rate was 16% of my gross pay.
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Jay Reddick,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Jan. 2026
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This requires curators to encode co-pay logic as rules tied to plan documents, not just inferred from historical claim outcomes.
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Anjana Susarla,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
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If the vaccine panel imposes restrictions for certain populations, employer health insurance plans might choose to charge a co-pay, Gelfand said.
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Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
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Sam’s Club members can use Novo Nordisk co-pay cards to purchase prescription Wegovy and Ozempic for $499 per month.
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Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
7 Oct. 2025
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An insurer trains a model to review prior-authorization (PA) requests and recommend approve/deny/pend decisions, and to determine co-pay tier.
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Anjana Susarla,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
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These victories include an insulin co-pay cap, new money for public schools, lowering the cost of health care and child care, opening up mental health programs, connecting young adults to job opportunities, and reforming our juvenile justice system.
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Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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