How to Use past due in a Sentence

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  • Even through this crisis, the bank's book of loans more than 90 days past due was zero.
    CBS News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Even through this crisis, the bank's book of loans more than 90 days past due was zero.
    CBS News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The time is more than past due to find out what really happened to Van Wyhe, once and for all.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The rate of delinquency, that is debt more than 30 days past due, rose across income groups.
    Harriet Torry, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
  • His wife, Cindi, opened an envelope taped on their apartment’s blue door that told them the rent was past due.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • There is no denying that the Cardinals are due (or past due) for a uniform upgrade.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Severely delinquent loans are more than 60 days past due and defaults are more than 90 days past due.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • The bills to fund federal agencies are more than five months past due with the budget year beginning Oct. 1.
    Kevin Freking, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The bills to fund federal agencies are more than five months past due, with the budget year beginning Oct. 1.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Sixty percent of those with balances are at least a year past due, up from 50% a year ago, according to a CreditCards.com survey by YouGov.
    Abha Bhattarai, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Today, all of the outstanding promissory notes are long past due.
    Jmanning, oregonlive, 30 June 2023
  • Poland and Ukraine have seen their ties strained in the past due to remaining tensions over ethnic bloodletting in the 20th century.
    Vanessa Gera, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
  • Shaky play on the interior has been one of the Bills' few glaring issues, and the team is past due for a meaningful investment at guard.
    Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The facelift is past due: Burger King has been behind its competitors in brand updating.
    Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
  • And yes, the 2019 refund could be applied to amounts still owed to the IRS or a state tax agency and may be used to offset unpaid child support or past due federal debts.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Sailors and families affected by doping said the move to begin testing was long past due.
    Dave Philipps, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Roche stock has been weighed down in the recent past due to some pipeline failures, including the Alzheimer’s treatment - Gantenerumab.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The fraud was discovered when the resident received a letter from Verizon about a past due amount.
    Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Nearly 8 percent of total credit card debt is at least 30 days past due, the highest such figure since the Great Recession.
    Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Shaw never mentions college loans that need paying off or credit card payments that are past due.
    Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Any refund due could be applied to amounts still owed to the IRS or a state tax agency and may be used to offset unpaid child support or past due federal debts.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 4 July 2023
  • The former One Direction member had canceled performances in the past due to his anxiety, and penned a piece about his struggle for Time in 2016.
    Anna Chan, Billboard, 19 May 2022
  • Rates of delinquency—when an account is 60 days or more past due—are on the rise, especially among young borrowers.
    Tanza Loudenback, wsj.com, 1 Nov. 2023
  • But many of these projects have reportedly stalled in the past due to financial mismanagement.
    Sophie Tremblay, CNN, 25 May 2022
  • Receiving a call stating their bill is past due and must be paid immediately.
    Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 15 July 2023
  • Also, a refund will be applied to any amounts owed to the IRS or a state tax agency or used to offset unpaid child support or past due federal debts, such as student loans.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 4 July 2023
  • In those cases, judicial foreclosure — filing a lawsuit to foreclose AND collect on the past due assessments — may shake them out of their stall game.
    Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Delinquencies on loans that are more than 90 days past due are at multi-year lows, according to the latest available data from the New York Federal Reserve.
    Simon Constable, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • According to the Fed, there is a direct line from consumers who have credit card balances, to those who max out their cards, to those who become delinquent (defined as an account that is 60 days or more past due).
    Jennifer Morris, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024
  • Having missed out on their high school graduation, so many of these graduates and their families felt a celebration was long past due.
    Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 11 May 2024

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