credit crunch
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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As nervousness spread, even banks eventually stopped lending to each other for fear of not getting their money back, creating a so-called "credit crunch".
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
Cass is dismissive of “debt refinancings,” but some of us are old enough to remember the 2008 credit crunch when businesses had trouble issuing commercial paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
He warns that a credit crunch or pullback in sentiment such as seen the early 2000s would see a lot of that spending by those companies drop fairly fast.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 16, 2025
“I do not currently see the potential for private credit to contribute to an unexpected credit crunch in the same way that the asset-backed commercial paper market did in 2008,” she said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
More frequent are a recession, a slump, a credit crunch, a slowdown, a growth recession and other less exotic variants.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel
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