“And if the gift assumes an economic dimension, it is because the gift indebts the receiver.”

“Can one pardon this hypermnesia which a priori indebts you, and in advance inscribes you in the book you are reading?”

“Gambling is a problem when it affects your work performance or when you are indebting yourself to play.”

“The ouster of Mr. Colombani followed complaints that he had endangered the independence of Le Monde by indebting the company through a series of acquisitions, including the purchase of Télérama.”

“At a family dinner, the chief executive of a large French bank gets into a quarrel with his uncle, a 1968 leftist, who accuses his nephew of indebting European citizens and destroying countries.”