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Example sentences for: earned

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Also, Connerly tells the reporter about an SAT study that shows that blacks from families earning more than $60,000 a year were outscored by whites and Asian-Americans whose families earned $20,000 or less.
I think I earned the watch."
Not coincidentally, these programs--including unemployment compensation, Social Security, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), all of which you have to work to get--have been politically unassailable, while welfare programs are either unpopular or actively despised.
Pessimists pointed out that Tyson gets to keep $27 million he earned from the fight and can take his services overseas.
I confess that I harbor a belief that contradicts much that I have held dear over the years, that leads me to reject well-established economic theory and practice, that has earned me the understandable scorn of my Slate colleagues.