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• Clean a few of these a few times a year instead of hiring a pro, and the purchase will pay for itself.
  — Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful, 17 Sep. 2021
• At the time, the theory was that the TIF district would quickly pay for itself.
  — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2022
• Chaney also doubts Noel’s golf course would attract enough golfers to pay for itself.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
• The cost of the pass is about the same as the cost of a regular ticket from Copenhagen to Aarhus, so the pass would already pay for itself with this one trip.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• Why ask residents for more tax money when the place could pay for itself?
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2024
• Buying a meat grinder that should last a lifetime will pay for itself quickly.
  — Brad Fenson, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2023
• Depending on how often you get pulled over, this thing will pay for itself in time.
  — Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 30 Nov. 2022
• Your synthetic spruce or fake Douglas fir will pay for itself in a few years!
  — Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 15 Sep. 2022
• Though the cost depends on the specific loan, the average home refi runs about $5,000 and can take more than a year to pay for itself.
  — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
• That light will now need to show Mr. Musk the money—specifically, how to make Twitter pay for itself.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2022
• Over time, as the cap rises and the market resets, a big-money quarterback deal can pay for itself.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 29 Apr. 2021
• For example, if an employee makes $15 an hour, Copilot would need to save them two hours a month to pay for itself.
  — Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
• Republicans have warned of a wave of agents and audits while Democrats said the increase would pay for itself through less tax cheating.
  — Akayla Gardner, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2023
• Varanasi claims that once at full scale, the approach can be efficient, productive, and able to pay for itself in as little as two years.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 June 2018
• But this is an improvement that can pay for itself over the long run by saving you money on utility bills.
  — Mia Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 May 2021
• For example, a too-large system costs more to install and can take a significant amount of time to pay for itself.
  — Tyler Shepherd, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
• By shaving years off the pandemic, this $25 billion effort to vaccinate the world would pay for itself many times over.
  — Ro Khanna, Foreign Affairs, 17 May 2021
• Any decent model will pay for itself over time with savings on your gas and electricity bills, of course.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 29 Apr. 2021
• It was supposed to pay for itself and generate vast economic growth.
  — Tim Darnell, ajc, 29 Apr. 2021
• Unlike the rest of the Met's curatorial areas, the fashion department must pay for itself — and last year, the gala raised some $22 million.
  — NPR, 6 May 2024
• With steep savings and extra coupons for members — that can in some cases be stacked — these markdowns will make that membership pay for itself.
  — Jessica Leigh Mattern, PEOPLE.com, 9 July 2021
• But even at its current price, if Stretch is able to reduce the need for a human caregiver in some situations, the robot will start to pay for itself.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Oct. 2023
• Investing to support this enforcement will not only pay for itself, but will make a serious dent in the deficit.
  — Time, 14 Apr. 2021
• In short, this vaccine initiative would pay for itself many times over simply in extra tax revenue.
  — Nicholas Kristof, Star Tribune, 29 May 2021
• The Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card has a low annual fee of $95, a lucrative rewards structure, and a bevy of benefits that help the card pay for itself.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2023
• Subway ridership doesn’t fully pay for itself at normal times — each fare brings in something a little south of half of the cost of a ride with taxes and tolls covering the rest.
  — Curbed, 16 Sep. 2022
• To launch Astra, Spiegelman was given a generous budget and a staff of four, along with an assurance that the magazine wouldn’t have to pay for itself.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• That would cost the state more than half a billion dollars a month, but Menjivar said the bill would pay for itself by staving off more expensive problems, such as homelessness.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• Foster also noted that the Build Back Better Act would pay for itself by boosting taxes on the rich and corporations.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 23 Nov. 2021
• Farmers might be convinced to plant oilseed cover crops because the crop can pay for itself by producing oils that can be supplied to biorefineries.
  — Peter Fairley, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024