borrow
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The ballot measure would allow qualified prospective homebuyers to borrow up to 17% of the sales price of a new home, contributing 3% of the down payment from their own funds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Previous schemes to help first-time buyers did not restrict eligibility by income but faced criticism for stoking house prices by allowing relatively wealthy households to borrow more.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Parents, who could previously borrow up to the full cost of their child’s undergraduate attendance, are also now limited to borrowing up to $20,000 a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Money now costs more to borrow, and that’s begun to lure investors back to the $32 trillion Treasury market for yield, following weeks of heavy selling.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Like how I used to get when Camille would borrow my nail polish without asking.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Italy, despite its much larger debt, now borrows at cheaper rates than France.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
The character design, which borrows from anime, is elegant and a little odd — hands and feet are drawn tiny, which has the paradoxical effect of drawing your attention, making them more expressive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
His prudent approach is to avoid a single grand plan and embrace a multifaceted strategy that borrows pertinent insights from a variety of approaches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The referees are from all four corners of the globe, all from different football associations, separate confederations, and Fifa effectively borrows their services for six weeks.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
At the party, at the corrugated tin shack of Maria Isabel’s cousin, Jasmin eats chicken, tries to blow up a red balloon, and borrows a pink bike with training wheels.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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Lambda is a “neocloud” startup, like Coreweave, that uses borrowed money to buy chips and rent their computational power to AI developers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Much of the money the firms borrowed for their buyouts came in the form of seven-year loans, since fund managers typically aim to flip their purchases in that time frame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
I remember people curled up on borrowed beanbags, eating second helpings of soup and talking over a movie they’d all seen before.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
To pay the fee, the couple said they borrowed money from a family friend and took out a loan.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Then she took a long wooden stick, borrowed flame from a burning wick, and lit a new candle.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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When borrowing costs rise, it becomes harder for the firms to profitably sell their companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Deloitte estimates that actual borrowing against credit lines might be closer to $1.6 trillion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The bond market’s moves have been on investors’ minds, because higher yields mean higher costs for hyperscalers and other companies borrowing to fund the AI-infrastructure build-out.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
French bond yields, which reflect the cost of government borrowing, surged to their highest level since 2002 last week amid a standoff over next year's budget, which aims to reduce the country's vast debts.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
“Oh, and the book is mine, by the way. Amari’s just borrowing it. You tell Dad I brought it here, and I’ll tell Mom who really maxed out her Duboise Cosmetics credit card.”
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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