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borrowing

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


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Investors this year have been concerned about how much tech companies are spending and borrowing to develop artificial intelligence.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 8, 2026

Treasury yields rose on robust U.S. labor data and ahead of next week’s inflation reports, while safe-haven buying kept borrowing costs near recent lows in Germany.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

When the Bank of England increases its base rate, credit card borrowing costs also tend to increase, although the impact is not always immediate.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Rising interest rates complicate the picture, since they lift borrowing costs for the billions of dollars in debt AI firms have taken on to finance the data centre rollout.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

Since he’d come to New York, he’d been borrowing my assigned books from the public library.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Viatris said it plans to fund the Pacira acquisition primarily from excess cash, with the remainder from short-term borrowings, adding that it expects the deal will have minimal impact on its gross leverage ratio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Remarkably, these offers continue to exist even while interest rates rise across the rest of the economy on both borrowings and savings.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 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

Scholars have long acknowledged such borrowings as moccasins, maize, and military tactics—the Indian-style guerrilla skirmishes with which the rebellious colonists bedeviled British soldiers.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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