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borrow

[bor-oh, bawr-oh] / ˈbɒr oʊ, ˈbɔr oʊ /




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Early-stage biotech companies borrow heavily to fund clinical trials long before making a profit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Students from Northern Ireland studying away from home can borrow up to £8,352, external for the 2026-27 academic year.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

If diesel stays high, the bill for all three lands where you shop, save and borrow.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Africa will launch its own credit rating agency on Wednesday, aimed at countering what many see as unfair assessments by global institutions that make it more expensive for African nations to borrow money.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

“And you can’t borrow any more of my stuff!”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Italy, despite its much larger debt, now borrows at cheaper rates than France.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Scott’s version of“The Dog Stars” borrows its title, premise and a handful of proper names.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

But Crandall said that in the long run, it will raise the interest rates on money the government borrows, increasing the cost to taxpayers.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

It borrows from the test-and-scale model of the Zara owner Inditex, ordering new products in small batches and then buying in bulk the styles that do well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

“I am not a demon. I am not any of the things you want me to be. I am just a person. A person who borrows other people’s lives for a day.”

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

The worst of the selling Wednesday was concentrated in companies that have borrowed heavily to finance data center build-outs and have signaled plans to keep doing so, making lenders uneasy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Apart from the turtle story, which made it into the episode “Field Trip,” very few of Arnold’s adventures were directly borrowed from Bartlett’s life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

United also revealed they had borrowed an additional £90m.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Igor Yelnik, founder of Alphidence Capital, a London-based global macro hedge fund, noted that funds are relying on leverage—essentially, borrowed money—more than the last time when rates were this high.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Once outside, she huddled in her borrowed cloak and stamped her feet against the chill, first the right foot, then the left.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

The company’s borrowing plans have made investors uneasy all year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

That debt is coming into focus in an environment where investors are getting more worried about the costs of borrowing money and the sustainability of AI spending going forward.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

The strategies seek to track—and ultimately outperform—an index, but also involve borrowing against the portfolio to create two “extensions,” one that goes long on stocks and the other that bets against them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

A wildly popular tax-saving strategy is pushing borrowing for stock trading to the limit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Omakayas’s mother was well known for owning a pair of scissors, and other women were always borrowing them.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich


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