affording

Example Sentences

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Sixty-eight percent of New Yorkers have experienced issues with affording healthcare, and 66% have delayed or gone without care due to cost.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026

For some first-time buyers the barrier is no longer saving for a deposit, but affording the monthly mortgage repayments.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

Hughes, who is in year four of an eight-year, $64 million contract with the New Jersey Devils of the NHL, has no worries about affording the best care possible.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

In the aftermath of the 2008-09 financial crisis, “ARMs all but disappeared because fixed rates were so low that buyers had no difficulty affording homes,” Kim noted.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

Mr. Gonzalez, thereupon, grew quite manic and fired Gloria immediately, affording himself an opportunity at authority which, I could see, he rarely enjoyed.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole