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I had also joined the Deer Park branch of the Toronto Public Library and was borrowing everything I could get my hands on.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

The government is set to borrow £113bn this year, £11bn less than was forecast in November, the IFS calculated, but still twice what it was borrowing prior to the pandemic.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2024

She was borrowing $15,000 from her in-laws to pay the smuggling fee, including $7,000 back home in El Salvador and $8,000 once she reached Houston.

From Washington Times • Jul. 30, 2023

And Tom Girardi, then at the height of his power, was borrowing heavily to fund his law firm and increasingly upset about the size of his wife’s American Express bill.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2023

At the close of the fiscal year ending 1st July, 1860, our public debt was only $64,769,703, and Secretary Cobb was borrowing money at twelve per cent. per annum.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various