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oh ing

  • v  be obliged to pay or repay
  • v  be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense
  • v  be in debt
  • s  owed as a debt

  • The world enters the 21st century and the 3rd millennium a wiser place, owing in no small part to the daughter of a small shopkeeper, who proved that nothing is more effective than .
  • Until the breakup of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan held the upper hand, owing to military support from units of the now disintegrating Seventh Army.
  • King's official cause of death is listed as cardio-respiratory failure, cerebral vascular illness and ovarian cancer, with her heart and lung failures owing in part to the stroke.
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  • Edwin van der Sar in Inside Futbol (blog)
    It's not a case of owing Milan one, but we will want to make sure we don't make the same mistakes we did a few years ago when they knocked us out at the semi-final stage,goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar told the club's official website. "We're...
  • Gary Chaison in International Herald Tribune
    The risk with an early endorsement is that the early endorsement flames out, and you're left with no one owing you anything,said Gary Chaison, professor of industrial relations at Clark University.

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