payoff

Example Sentences

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The payoff from the Apogee deal won’t be immediate.

From Barron's • Jun. 22, 2026

In the other, the payoff is real but years off, while the demand is here today—so the boom is overheating the economy now.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

Artificial intelligence that could add $14 trillion to global capital spending in the next five years may see a productivity payoff that arrives faster and proves more disinflationary than expected by investors, said Pimco.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 13, 2026

He offers her a generous payoff to stay quiet, and she tells him, in so many words, to stick it.

From Salon • May 29, 2026

They were skeptical at first, but after I described the unique nature of the quest, and what I believed the payoff for solving it might be, they finally agreed.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline