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  • present participle of borrow.
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borrowing

[bor-oh-ing, bawr-] / ˈbɒr oʊ ɪŋ, ˈbɔr- /
NOUN
appropriating
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
loaning


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The news soothed worries about the company's health after suffering heavy selling last month amid speculation that it could struggle to finance its vast debt pile as borrowing costs continued to rise.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

Higher 10-year Treasury yields can decrease the value of future corporate profits, while pushing up borrowing costs for households, businesses and the U.S. government.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

However, as I and others have argued elsewhere, the phrase “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” was a borrowing from long parliamentary and Colonial usage in which the phrase commonly covered gross incompetence or mismanagement.

From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2026

The borrowing binge makes global markets even riskier and complicates the ability of central banks to step in to help.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

“Your parents aren’t particularly generous with you, are they? But you’re so scrupulous about not borrowing money that it’s rather silly.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Now, however, one of the bigger questions facing investors is whether all the borrowings for the data-center and infrastructure buildout are going to get paid back adequately, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Truist Financial plans to use the proceeds from the sale to repay wholesale borrowings as it continues its broader strategic review.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The club's latest quarterly figures showed total borrowings of £1.29bn, including outstanding transfer fees.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

If that happens, he said, it could raise bills for electric customers since the utility may have to pay a higher interest rate for new borrowings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

They took turns reciting Homeric genealogies, full of falsifications and borrowings from real life, and sometimes they fought over this or that favorite real uncle or aunt, and had to bargain like casting directors.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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