borrow
verb (used with object)
to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent.
have been borrowing
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present perfect progressiveof borrow.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Debt trap: Many countries that have been borrowing heavily from Beijing for years to pay for infrastructure are now struggling to pay their debts.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
South Koreans have been borrowing more than ever before and policymakers are increasingly worried the 1,845 trillion won debt pile could become unsustainable as interest rates rise.
From Reuters ● Mar. 8, 2022
Fewer investors have been borrowing from their retirement savings, or are at least paying loans off more quickly.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
And while economists like Piketty have been borrowing vivid examples from literature, literary critics have been borrowing statistical methods from the social sciences to study large collections of digital texts.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2014
In fact the great bulk of the landed proprietors have been borrowing in every direction as much as they could raise by mortgage or by bill.
From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various
