borrowing

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So too did borrowing costs, petrol prices, and mortgage rates.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

The aim would be to bolster a stagnant labor market and drum up demand in key areas of the economy such as housing that have suffered from high borrowing costs.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

Money markets are reacting to hopes of a long-term truce in the war so the recent rapid rise in borrowing costs has halted and is now starting to reverse.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

European central bankers reaffirmed their willingness to raise borrowing costs if they see second-round effects or signs that higher energy bills are prompting higher wage demands and lifting prices of goods and services.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

There has also been a frequent reverse problem, of devising letters to represent “new” sounds present in the borrowing language but absent in the lending language.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond