Synonyms for to borrow
to bor·row

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1. to nag

   when somone is getting on your nerves, to complain

   my mother nags

   Submitted by acronimous on February 6, 2014  

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1. to borrow

   Read the full text of the To Borrow poem by Kurt Philip Behm on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Wendell Berry:

   We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. (Actually appearing as "a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children" in _The Unforeseen Wilderness: An Essay on Kentucky’s Red River Gorge_, published 1971)

2. Thann Chanthy:

   I have no income for the past three weeks and no savings, i’m only able to pay if I borrow from a loan shark... I really don’t know what to do.

3. Bill Gross:

   A 30-year Treasury at 2.5 percent can wipe out your annual income in one day with a 10 basis point increase, the secret in a negative interest rate world that poses extraordinary duration risk for AAA sovereign bonds is to No 1, keep bond maturities short and No 2 borrow at those attractive yields in a mildly levered form that provides a yield and expected return of 5-6 percent.

4. Kim Forrest:

   Investors are understanding that things aren't terrible but things aren't going to materially improve in the short term with the actions taken in China. It takes a long time to borrow money, to come up with plans, to build things.

5. Reed Hastings:

   These are amazing, large, well-funded companies with very significant efforts, they are going to do some great shows. I'm going to be envious. They're going to come up with some great ideas. We're going to want to borrow those.