borrow
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And it would borrow money to amplify positions and hedge by shorting some stocks viewed as AI losers, but it was meant to be heavily exposed to market swings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Longer-term rates have risen since Warsh took over at the Fed, making it more expensive for people and companies to borrow.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Investment-grade technology companies are increasingly using their balance sheets to help smaller companies borrow money for their infrastructure needs, a phenomenon known within the industry as a “credit wrapper.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
And it was not beyond her to borrow a good idea...
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
James Ford walked to the Treasury Department a few blocks away to borrow several flags to decorate the president’s box.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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"Language is often the first thing politics borrows when it is trying to connect with a new constituency," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
One could argue, however, that as Alphabet rolls out more data centers — and borrows money to do it — that it is becoming more of an industrial company, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
The contemporary Falangist movement in Spain explicitly borrows its name and iconography from Francisco Franco’s dictatorship.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
The investor borrows someone else’s shares, immediately sells them, and buys them back, hopefully at a lower price to create a profit, usually within a six month period.
From Barron's ● Apr. 17, 2026
“Even though it’s a loan company, it’s never made any loans. Not one. It just borrows money from one bank and pays it back to another. That’s all it does. Borrow and pay back.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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Simmons believes the book may have been borrowed by his great-great-grandfather, John Simmons, who owned the house when the library first opened.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
The hedge fund, which borrowed money to amplify its AI bets, was under pressure to raise cash to meet margin-call demands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The 1st Circuit’s language about “confusion” and “disenfranchisement” is not a talking point borrowed from the plaintiffs.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
Politicians have always borrowed the language of popular culture, he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Gran had already said it was okay if I borrowed some of his CDs collecting dust in the garage.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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The library’s original borrowing records have been lost, however, leaving the identity of the delinquent reader — and the reason the book was sealed inside a fireplace — a mystery.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
"What we're doing as a council is borrowing £5,500 in every one of those houses."
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
The main inflation barometer used to set U.S. interest rates fell in June for the first time since the pandemic, underscoring why the Federal Reserve took no action this week to raise borrowing costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
“Those are some of the things that lets some of the air out of the balloon by discouraging borrowing and crimping consumption and investment.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 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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