borrowed

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Manzo borrowed some of Bukele’s anti-corruption catchphrases, and Quiroz remembers him studying propaganda videos Bukele posted online.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

He pressured Berlin’s biggest banks to issue a joint statement restricting margin loans, which enable speculators to trade stocks with borrowed money.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Defense expenditures were about $900 billion, of which $621 billion was not borrowed.

From Slate • May 11, 2026

Plug Power is a popular short, with some 350 million shares borrowed and sold by bearish investors who expect the stock to decline.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Andrei Sakharov, the physicist who led the Soviet hydrogen bomb program, borrowed a piece of paper from a scientist next to him.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin