steepness

Example Sentences

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Adjustable-rate mortgages, or ARMs, could become more popular as the yield curve steepens.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

“This just steepens that curve of decline,” Harry Schuhmacher, the publisher of Beer Business Daily, told The Times.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023

When the yield curve steepens, banks can borrow at lower rates and lend at higher rates.

From Reuters • Jun. 13, 2022

As meteorologist Miguel Miller, also from the San Diego weather service office, points out, a temperature gradient is proportional to the pressure gradient, and a steep temperature gradient steepens the pressure gradient.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2022

The slope I have quitted steepens now into a precipice, and the two sides of this ravine move closer and closer together, their bare limestone brows a thousand, two thousand, feet above the road.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa