low-rate
Americanverb (used with object)
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Like many, she also complained that a string of tax hikes and changes -- raising VAT and removing a simplified low-rate system for the smallest firms -- had made the situation even worse.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
After all, many businesses that began lending to consumers after the global financial crisis nearly two decades ago were set up for a low-rate environment.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 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
Inventory is especially scarce right now as would-be sellers continue to hang onto their low-rate mortgages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 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
Each time you open a pack of Pokémon cards, you don’t know what you’re going to get, maybe a low-rated Wishiwashi or a highly desired Charizard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 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
As host of “The Daily Show” from 1999 to 2015, he turned a low-rated Comedy Central late-night series into a cultural force, becoming one of the nation’s best-known media and political critics.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
I'd have got nothing but low-rated stuff the liners didn't want.
From Lister's Great Adventure by Bindloss, Harold
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
Papa couldn’t stand it when Mama got to low-rating Uncle Camp’s people.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
She was just too busy low-rating Miss Love to fool with me.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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