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mortgage

[mawr-gij] / ˈmɔr gɪdʒ /
NOUN
loan agreement
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Dani said: "It was always a conversation we had but once you start having kids and you've got the mortgage and everything like that it's kind of, 'oh it's not the right time'."

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The White House said a “committee of inquiry” will probe claims that Cook made “false statements in connection with one or more mortgage instruments.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

She sued to block her firing and has said she never committed mortgage fraud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Today, mortgage rates are 7.5%, while the median sales price has actually risen to $430,000, says NAR.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

The subprime mortgage machine was up and running again, as if it had never broken down in the first place.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

They come with the risk that if rates go down, homeowners refinance out of their old higher-rate mortgages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Rising rates have chilled homeowners’ interest in refinancing their mortgages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The 10-year Treasury yield is seen as the benchmark rate, given that it helps determine interest rates on a number of consumer loans, such as home mortgages.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

That’s raised the costs of new mortgages, corporate borrowing and financing the $40 trillion national debt.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

The implications of turning home mortgages into bonds were mind-bogglingly vast.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Not terribly long ago, Cleveland mortgaged its future believing that Watson was its savior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Just over half of mortgaged households will roll off fixes and are expected to see higher monthly payments over the next three years.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

After poor ticket sales, producers were reported to have mortgaged property to cover debts.

From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025

The couple mortgaged their Hollywood Hills home again and again to finance his films, she said, in an effort to remain independent from the tight reins of Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

He saw himself as a muckraking gadfly and had mortgaged his brownstone five times to keep The Phoenix going.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

“Russia would be further mortgaging its future for the sake of military gains,” said Alexander Kolyandr, a director at the consulting firm Eurasia Group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Mid-cap players are mortgaging chunks of their businesses to get in on the action, too.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025

But she stuck to her guns, mortgaging her house to finance the project — and it seems to have paid off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

A major part of the conversion effort is figuring out how to finance the sale in the first place — so workers aren’t mortgaging their houses to buy their own company.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2023

Almost immediately, the financial slide began, but was artificially buoyed by extravagant bank loans that Chacko raised by mortgaging the family’s rice fields around the Ayemenem House.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy




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