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Example sentences for: owes

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When Dan Burton calls Clinton a "scumbag," he owes a tip of the cap to Thompson.
He now must convince the United States to accept a powerful United Nations--and to pay the $1 billion it owes the organization.
Until now, the notion that Microsoft owes all its success to ruthless marketing rather than technical ingenuity has been a fringe view.
Clearly, Amsterdam owes its Booker to committee embarrassment over not tapping (or even shortlisting) Enduring Love . It's rather like the Nobel committee's honoring Hemingway for his vapid The Old Man and the Sea . This leads me to realize that "minor" is most often used as a synonym for "bad" or "short."
Degas' very retreat from contemporary life owes something to his disgust with French society as he found it.