Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Paying
Paying adjective - Yielding a profit.
Both words in one sentence
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Then Christopher went to the Spanish, who held a similar opinion but decided to keep him around by paying him not to go anywhere else.
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Instead of lots of people paying to keep the station alive, several persons had to pay to avoid having their embarrassing secrets revealed on national TV.
Source: Blackmail - Later he actually kind of lies in order to keep Lance away from the paying customers.
Source: Literature / Keepers Chronicles
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