borrowed
Example Sentences
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For much of the past 20 years, alternative managers could leverage returns with borrowed money at remarkably low rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
"I borrowed a razor blade to cut the placenta," she told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
"It was a private issue. According to his confession, it was about money that the... chairman borrowed from him for several years, and he asked for the return of the money several times," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Ross Simmons, 77, thinks his great-grandfather, John Simmons, might have borrowed the book to help with his career, having worked as an apprentice stonemason in Westminster in the mid-1800s before becoming an architect in Australia.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Nathan had also brought the second book of the series that he had borrowed from the library.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
