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Discover LudwigThe term "clear debt" is a correct and usable term in written English, and it can be used when referring to a situation in which an individual or entity has paid off a debt (usually in a loan)
For example, "After years of diligent saving, the Smiths were finally able to clear their debt."
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Mr. Anderson owes a clear debt to the Japanese designers of the '80s.
These newer bands owe a clear debt to their most recent predecessors.
In his use of dramatised narrative there is a clear debt to Robert Frost.
Shaffer's writing, with its delicately offbeat, self-deprecating stylishness, is exquisitely turned, bearing a clear debt to Jane Austen.
One of this year's most impressive novels, Teju Cole's debut "Open City," owes a clear debt to Sebald.
In this, and its use of episode-ending montages of the main characters, it shows a clear debt to "The Killing".
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Falls in nominal property prices would hamper attempts to clear debts through private sales, and repossessions would surge upwards.
The piece owed clear debts to harder-edged video predecessors like Joan Jonas and Hannah Wilke and even to performance artists like Marina Abramovic.
"The transfer was to clear debts out of our UK companies which had bought the properties, so the club itself is not carrying the debts," she said.
When Jackson died, he was preparing to return to the stage, after an absence of almost a decade, in a bid to clear debts estimated at almost $400m £263mm).
As well as using assets to clear debts, it is vital to get the best income possible when drawing on a private pension.
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