make higher

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These borrowers can afford to make higher down payments, and might be less likely to miss payments over time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

This also would make higher wages available earlier in a teacher’s career.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2025

"This will be used by the very worst people to make higher education worse, not better."

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2024

They have become an option for some people who think they will struggle to make higher monthly repayments on more widely-used repayment mortgages, in which borrowers pay off both the interest and the capital.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2023

Kohl pencil marks map the changes I'll make: higher cheekbones like her mother's, a button nose like her father's, and deep sloping eyes.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton