low-rate
Americanverb (used with object)
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After a "low-rate initial production" at Everett, the "North Line will help enable the 737 MAX program to reach 52 airplanes a month," according to a Boeing handout.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Wilson soon appointed Seymour to head the California Housing Finance Agency, which helps first-time home buyers access low-rate loans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
The pull of sticking with a low-rate mortgage is still strong, however.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026
These funds tout performance unaligned with the public markets, offering yield in a low-rate world and exposure to companies and assets that may never go public.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 26, 2026
The first motel doesn’t answer, which is not uncommon in your low-rate places.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
The junk-bond market is also one of the best early signals of a souring economy, since low-rated borrowers feel stress first.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
But in this case, default rates on low-rated corporate debt haven’t been surging, and the latest data has generally pointed to a stable economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
There aren’t a lot of countries where you can issue a low-rated triple-C bond and investors are willing to buy it knowing capital markets will remain open and robust.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
Show producers said they were “pivoting away from a live event” format and leaned heavily into a retrospective-style broadcast, one that ended up being hastily reminiscent of low-rated pandemic-era awards shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2023
He come here to git justice, not to be slurred and low-rated.
From De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts by Zora Neale Hurston
The exoticism of high price generates curiosity, and this curiosity fills the museum, turning it into a low-rating mass medium.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was just too busy low-rating Miss Love to fool with me.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Papa couldn’t stand it when Mama got to low-rating Uncle Camp’s people.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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