delinquency

Example Sentences

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The National Foundation for Credit Counseling produces a quarterly financial stress forecast that predicts credit-card delinquency risk based on client metrics from credit-counseling groups.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

"This action supports the welfare of American children by exacting real consequences for child support delinquency under existing federal law," the department said in a statement.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

Other overachieving systems—including the active hydraulic roll stabilization, the rear-wheel steering, even the acoustically insulated convertible top, your honor—contributed to my oblivious delinquency.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

A delinquency sits on a credit record for seven years, but a carried balance two years ago isn’t going to sink a borrower’s chances at a good mortgage rate.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 25, 2026

If in this wandering narrative I seem to have cut the cords of family joys and sorrows, of Junior’s current delinquency and junior Junior’s new tooth, of business triumph and agony, it is not so.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck