Lose
Lose verb - To be unable to find or have at hand.
Paying
Paying adjective - Yielding a profit.
Lose is an antonym for paying in topics: profit, make amends, services, be advantageous, get revenge.
Both words in one sentence
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Phineas and Ferb: Doofenshmirtz is once about to lose his home for not paying the mortgage.
Source: I Warned You aka: I Told You So - In Lynn Flewelling's Literature/Tamír Triad, on Tobin's birthday his cousin Prince Korin insists on paying for a prostitute so Tobin can lose his virginity.
Source: Platonic Prostitution -
Meanwhile Kosaki and Ruri lose sight of them at the restaurant after not paying attention to when they left.
Source: Manga / Nisekoi
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