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Example sentences for: earned

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50 a year rather than $5 because by not giving away the microwave I am foregoing not only the $50 but also the interest I would have earned on the $50 for 10 years.)
E. Michael Campbell has resigned his post at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory after anonymous faxes revealed that he had never earned a doctoral degree.
Then the full 9th Circuit overruled its own justices in the state's favor, agreeing with the state's contention that the clients weren't harmed because the interest wouldn't be earned otherwise.
But she doesn't mention that its effect is partly offset by the Earned Income Tax Credit, a tax rebate for low-income workers.
Examining Gore's and Bradley's LCV scorecards (which, sadly, aren't available on the Web), Chatterbox noticed that Gore was being judged partly on votes that occurred during the two years before Bradley came to Washington--and, in one of those years (1978), Gore earned his third-worst annual LCV score ever (56 percent).