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Origin of borrowing
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at borrow, -ing 1
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The Fed’s benchmark rate most directly affects short-term borrowing such as credit cards and auto loans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
But borrowing a generation's vocabulary, she argues, is easier than engaging with the frustrations that produced it.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Meanwhile, lower interest rates can boost the economy by reducing borrowing costs and encouraging spending and investment.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Its debt payments now eat about a quarter of the national budget, and the government just penciled in a 3% borrowing cost, up from 2%.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
It had been one month since I began borrowing books from the library again.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
Among the red flags that Di Mattia is tracking are the stock-market performances of companies whose borrowings are tied to AI hopes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The club also confirmed borrowings on a revolving credit facility on 31 March were £262.5m.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
Excessive borrowings have long been central to financial crises.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
Their profits mainly came from the spread between the interest they paid on those borrowings and the higher rates they charged on floating-rate loans to their corporate borrowers.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
They took turns reciting Homeric genealogies, full of falsifications and borrowings from real life, and sometimes they fought over this or that favorite real uncle or aunt, and had to bargain like casting directors.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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