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[ UK /ˈəʊ/ ]
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VERB
- be obliged to pay or repay
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be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense
This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory -
be in debt
The thesis owes much to his adviser
She owes me $200
I still owe for the car
How To Use owe In A Sentence
- Liberal democracy is a fraud, a cover for the power of the elite. Times, Sunday Times
- Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
- The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe.
- This came out of an investigation he was carrying out into when a ternary quartic form could be represented as the sum of five fourth powers of linear forms.
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- He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
- Sewage overflowed into wash basins at West Middlesex Hospital following a blockage in one of the toilets.
- In the forecabins, the head and shower is located forward and has a large mirrored vanity with ample storage below.
- Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses. Caesars’ Wives
- The captain's armband must have special powers because he's been brilliant. Times, Sunday Times