Example Sentences

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Even that wasn’t incentive enough for some dairy farmers, whom developers were offering 10, 20, 50 times what they had paid for their land.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

Mortgage delinquency rates were artificially low during the pandemic years, when households were receiving government stimulus payments and banks were offering relief programs to struggling borrowers, the Fed researchers said.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 10, 2026

Of the builders surveyed in December by the National Association of Home Builders, 67% said they were offering buyers sales incentives—a reading the trade group said was “the highest percentage in the post-Covid period.”

From Barron's • Dec. 16, 2025

“I realized what the models were offering was a different way of doing math.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

You’d think they were offering ten free cookies and the first of us to line up gets them, such is the screaming and panic.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle