borrowing

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So too did borrowing costs, petrol prices, and mortgage rates.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

Money markets are reacting to hopes of a long-term truce in the war so the recent rapid rise in borrowing costs has halted and is now starting to reverse.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

The Bank of England left its key interest rate unchanged last month but was prepared to raise borrowing costs due to surging energy prices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

He had stressed the need to lower borrowing costs to aid a deteriorating jobs market.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

Some inherited letters or signs may simply be dropped, when the sounds that those letters represent in the lending language do not exist in the borrowing language.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond