borrow
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And many software companies need to borrow money as well.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Executives at the country’s biggest banks said this week that higher rates so far haven’t dented consumer or business appetite to borrow and spend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Therefore investors are continuing “to reprice growth-heavy equity valuations in general,” meaning they’re taking a fresh look at the high stock multiples associated with companies that borrow money to help fuel their growth.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Students from Wales studying away from home can borrow up to £11,570 in the 2026-27 academic year.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Day and night, they printed thousands of new, even bolder, leaflets on a hand-cranked duplicating machine, possibly purchased with the money Sophie asked to borrow from Fritz.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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Italy, despite its much larger debt, now borrows at cheaper rates than France.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
The character design, which borrows from anime, is elegant and a little odd — hands and feet are drawn tiny, which has the paradoxical effect of drawing your attention, making them more expressive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
His prudent approach is to avoid a single grand plan and embrace a multifaceted strategy that borrows pertinent insights from a variety of approaches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The council borrows money to pay for capital projects, with its borrowing limit currently standing at £1.6 billion.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
At the party, at the corrugated tin shack of Maria Isabel’s cousin, Jasmin eats chicken, tries to blow up a red balloon, and borrows a pink bike with training wheels.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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“Picks-and-shovels” companies making AI hardware are better-positioned than those relying on “cheap borrowed money to expand,” said Michael Landsberg, chief investment officer at Landsberg Bennett Private Wealth Management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
CoreWeave, which has borrowed heavily to fund data-center construction, fell further premarket Thursday after a 15% plunge yesterday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Each borrowed about £37,500 to cover three years of tuition and living costs.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Apart from the turtle story, which made it into the episode “Field Trip,” very few of Arnold’s adventures were directly borrowed from Bartlett’s life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
“What about her, you fool? She is here to audition for the tsar’s own ballet, and you spend the day losing borrowed money at cards?”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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"This is not merely a matter of borrowing money; it is about shaping the very structure and direction of the nation's development."
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
And beauty is relative, especially when it comes to borrowing.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Indeed the Thai finance minister was boasting to me of how little his borrowing costs had gone up, especially in relation to the US.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
The CoreWeave selloff shows a pressure point from climbing borrowing costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Omakayas’s mother was well known for owning a pair of scissors, and other women were always borrowing them.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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