loan 1 of 2

as in to lend
to give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned can you loan me your lawn mower this weekend?

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loan

2 of 2

noun

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Trump on July 4 signed a measure that extends his 2017 tax cuts and includes new tax breaks, including on tipped wages, overtime pay and car loans. Zac Anderson, USA Today, 22 July 2025 There are also new deductions for tip income, overtime earnings and car loan interest, with varying eligibility requirements. Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 20 July 2025
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Kennealy’s decision to loan his campaign $400,000 and plan to loan another $1.6 million ahead of the 2026 election comes after state campaign finance regulators in April dismissed his request to reconsider the limit on the amount candidates can loan themselves each election cycle. Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 25 June 2025 The hosts talk about the company’s unique business history—Céspedes bought it out of bankruptcy after loaning the owners $700,000—and whether there’s an opportunity for the company to make metal bats to sell to youth players. Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for loan
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  • Beauty also continues to dominate in this area, with the products lending themselves to live demonstrations.
    Catherine Erdly, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Webb’s observation of the nebula lends unprecedented detail to a region previously observed by other space telescopes, including Hubble, NASA said.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 12 July 2025
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  • This is the first time a studio has put tickets for sale this early in advance, but considering Nolan has a loyal army of fans large enough to sack a city, there certainly won’t be any shortage of uptake.
    Benny Har-Even, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • It's put submissions to the Federal Register on hold, effectively blocking many NIH grants from being funded because meetings to review grant proposals must be posted in the Federal Register 15 days in advance.
    Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 15 July 2025
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  • For instance, Sugihara’s self-discovery occurs after his family pays a bribe to switch their citizenship from North Koreans to South Koreans—just so that his parents can visit Hawai‘i.
    H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 11 July 2025
  • By his own admission, the Mexican lawman known as El Diablo — The Devil — supervised a scourge of torture, murder, kidnappings, land grabs and other abuses while amassing a fortune in cartel bribes that bankrolled purchases of homes, cattle and a fleet of buses.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025

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“Loan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loan. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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