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Recent Examples of incur
For example, the National Association of Manufacturers reported that in 2022, businesses with fewer than 50 employees incurred regulatory costs of $14,700 per employee, compared with $12,200 for companies with 100 or more employees.
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Dominick Davis, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2025
City solicitor Renee Garcia — Parker's appointee to lead the law department — filed the lien, demanding repayment plus any expenses and attorney fees incurred in pursuing the debt.
—Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 21 Feb. 2025
Some integrations are free, while others incur an extra fee.
—John Brandon, PCMAG, 20 Feb. 2025
In exchange, the legislation offered federal subsidies for reinsurance that would cover future catastrophic losses incurred in these markets.
—Stephen Mihm, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2025
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Dominick Davis, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2025
City solicitor Renee Garcia — Parker's appointee to lead the law department — filed the lien, demanding repayment plus any expenses and attorney fees incurred in pursuing the debt.
—Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 21 Feb. 2025
Some integrations are free, while others incur an extra fee.
—John Brandon, PCMAG, 20 Feb. 2025
In exchange, the legislation offered federal subsidies for reinsurance that would cover future catastrophic losses incurred in these markets.
—Stephen Mihm, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incur
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Lourens is seeking in excess of $200,000 in damages, according to the complaint.—
David Chiu,
People.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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President Volodymyr Zelensky had also been seeking security guarantees for Ukraine, a condition that was absent in the first draft agreement presented to him last week, prompting him to decline to sign the deal.—
Constant Méheut,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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During the pandemic, ecommerce soared while travel contracted, and changes in global demand have seen currency pairs that were once considered exotic move into the mundane for global trade.—
Daniel Webber,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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However, Venn-Watson found that other dolphins living in the same conditions weren’t contracting certain diseases as the others, which led her and her team to study why.—
Ian Thomas,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2025
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Yet Hal’s shenanigans, pursued in the company of Sir John Falstaff (Jay O. Sanders), that poor man’s bon vivant, mask aspirations of greatness.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2025
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Investigators were pursuing about 3,200 active complaints of racial discrimination, including unfair discipline and racial harassment.—
Jennifer Smith Richards,
ProPublica,
21 Feb. 2025
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All comments are moderated by the Learning Network staff, but please keep in mind that once your comment is accepted, it will be made public and may appear in print. Find more Picture Prompts here.—
The Learning Network,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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Ukrainian officials are not participating in Tuesday's meeting and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Kyiv will not accept the outcome if his country is not in attendance for the talks.—
Landon Mion,
Fox News,
18 Feb. 2025
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Attendees pose in front of Halloween decorations, then scramble to catch a photo beneath artificial snow nearby.—
Julius Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2025
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Florida Dolphin Found 'In Distress' Later Diagnosed with Bird Flu, Study Finds Colleen Talty, a marine biologist with Monterey Bay Whale Watch, also told the AP that many people come to Monterey from all over the world to try to catch a glimpse of the elusive northern right whale dolphin.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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After three years of brutal and deadly fighting in Eastern Europe, many observers and allies would welcome an end to Russia's full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine.—
Kevin Shalvey,
ABC News,
24 Feb. 2025
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Bassett’s journey to motherhood wasn’t easy—after seven years of trying IVF, Bassett and her husband welcomed their twins on Jan. 27, 2006.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Incur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incur. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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