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as in adopted
to take for one's own use (something originated by another)
borrowed the basic plot from a book of tales, but put her personal stamp on the story
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Recent Examples of borrowed
Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
These policies reflect a regulatory instinct borrowed from consumer products — fix the capability, certify the output, call it safe.
—Ion Stoica, Fortune, 27 May 2026
Silhouettes were long and loose, and shapes borrowed from the world of menswear, with subtle wrapping techniques that nodded to DVF’s legacy.
—Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 27 May 2026
This led to the cutting and pasting practice whereby smaller rural or town newspapers borrowed from the larger newspapers in urban centers.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
Life jackets can be borrowed for the day at the aquatics center.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 22 May 2026
A lot of the stuff that people think is new or innovative now is actually something that’s been borrowed or co-opted from something else that came before, or it was at least inspired by something that came before.
—Marah Eakin, Vulture, 20 May 2026
Karpathy was one of several OpenAI employees Musk borrowed from OpenAI to do months of free work at Tesla, where the development of self-driving vehicles wasn’t going as quickly as promised.
—Ashley Capoot,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 19 May 2026
Every penny of that spending blitz was borrowed and essentially printed.
—Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
Verb
What Regulators Need to Do — and Quickly The architecture of this market — borrowed against borrowed against borrowed, with valuations set by sellers and risks distributed across jurisdictions no single regulator can see whole — is not identical to subprime mortgages in 2006.
—Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
These policies reflect a regulatory instinct borrowed from consumer products — fix the capability, certify the output, call it safe.
—Ion Stoica, Fortune, 27 May 2026
Silhouettes were long and loose, and shapes borrowed from the world of menswear, with subtle wrapping techniques that nodded to DVF’s legacy.
—Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 27 May 2026
This led to the cutting and pasting practice whereby smaller rural or town newspapers borrowed from the larger newspapers in urban centers.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
Life jackets can be borrowed for the day at the aquatics center.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 22 May 2026
A lot of the stuff that people think is new or innovative now is actually something that’s been borrowed or co-opted from something else that came before, or it was at least inspired by something that came before.
—Marah Eakin, Vulture, 20 May 2026
Karpathy was one of several OpenAI employees Musk borrowed from OpenAI to do months of free work at Tesla, where the development of self-driving vehicles wasn’t going as quickly as promised.
—Ashley Capoot,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 19 May 2026
Every penny of that spending blitz was borrowed and essentially printed.
—Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for borrowed
Adjective
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While Craig will be the assumed starter, typically Dykes has at least tried to have a quarterback battle, with redshirt freshman Adam Schobel being Craig’s primary competition to watch.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Mar. 2026
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Witnessing violence has, unfortunately, become an assumed risk when logging onto the internet.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
20 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Late Friday, however, state officials adopted a new structure for the emissions program, called cap-and-invest, that analysts say will likely reduce wildfire mitigation funding by $200 million per year.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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Taken together, those cultural threads help explain why food – and especially meat – carries an outsized symbolic role in Texas politics, where the official state dish, adopted in 1977, is chili, defined by its significant meat base.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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Quick wash is best for lightly worn clothes, not heavily soiled or stained items.—
Marisa Suzanne Martin,
The Spruce,
29 May 2026
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Historically, brands have used pumice stones to achieve a worn, stonewashed look — with stones often shipped from Mexico, adding transport emissions and cost to the process.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 May 2026
Verb
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And while their nuptials were kept deliberately low-key, their traditional outfits still embraced the elegance of a classic wedding-day look.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
31 May 2026
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The challenge that Slot faced and embraced initially had morphed into something else entirely.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
31 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Borrowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borrowed. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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