How to Use indebtedness in a Sentence

indebtedness

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  • Slow growth and rising indebtedness used to be the kind of thing that would put a chill on the markets.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2020
  • But most signs are that this was caused by a global cash crunch, not fears of rising indebtedness by the United States.
    — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Without a raise in the ceiling, the Treasury won’t be able to issue new indebtedness.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Monetary policy will be eased, if not as sharply as in the past, and some of the progress on indebtedness will be undone.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 20 July 2018
  • Household indebtedness does not stop with these formal forms of debt.
    — Christian Weller, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
  • There are notes of indebtedness, memos to merchants, and a reckoning of an account for beer.
    — Charlotte Higgins, The New Yorker, 1 May 2017
  • New Zealand’s indebtedness, however, will at its peak still be low compared with countries such as Japan and the U.S.
    — Stephen Wright, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2020
  • No one is arguing that the gift won’t do enormous good in lowering the indebtedness of all students — rich, middle-class and poor.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2021
  • That also was the last time that Chinese indebtedness actually fell on the year.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 26 June 2019
  • That means African indebtedness is starting to be a real problem.
    — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The trader is selling units to shore up its finances after posting a $1.75 billion loss in the second quarter amid a surge in indebtedness.
    — Jasmine Ng, Bloomberg.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The pandemic had pushed up total indebtedness of the countries to a 50-year high, or the equivalent of more than 2.5 times government revenues.
    — Yuka Hayashi, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
  • An remarkable facet of the rise of indebtedness is that it is correlated with other ‘crises’.
    — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Negative indebtedness is the feeling of obligation to return the favor, to pay a debt.
    — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The accounts provide a marked contrast to the legacy of indebtedness that is emerging in families with fewer means.
    — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Therefore, this crisis will at best sink millions of people further into indebtedness or force them to beg, loot or starve.
    — Aroop Chatterjee, Quartz Africa, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Despite the rising indebtedness of the United States, most investors still regard Treasury bonds as a safe asset.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2020
  • For instance, if your future mother-in-law has always been known to have the last word, give the last gift, or do things that absolve her own feelings of indebtedness, then this behavior isn’t about you.
    — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Both expressed, in a single breath, gratitude to their parents, who made the decision to emigrate, and a sense of indebtedness to the United States for giving them a haven.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The use of over-indebtedness as a way to grow a business is fundamentally a kind of speculation and greed that the authorities want to end, Lundy said.
    — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Fuerst also noted that many UConn students graduate on time, which keeps down costs and indebtedness.
    — Erica E. Phillips, Hartford Courant, 22 July 2022
  • This whirlwind of indebtedness is a part of a larger system that ties most Americans to creditors.
    — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Among families of color, the loan is much more common — and those families are more likely to be dragged into indebtedness.
    — USA TODAY, 26 June 2019
  • The company is racing to reduce its debt load in the face of rapidly falling prices that have increased its relative indebtedness.
    — Jack Sidders, Fortune Europe, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The initiative’s investments have since slowed as Chinese growth falters, the United States pushes back and countries question the indebtedness the projects brought.
    — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The Reserve Bank recently announced that Australia’s household debt-to-income ratio had reached an all-time high of 190 percent — one of the highest levels of indebtedness in the world.
    — Rod McGuirk, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • But the pure weirdness of Valadon’s vision, the way a foot seems to summon a carpet to life, or a still life bubbles over into quasi-abstraction, erases any sense of indebtedness to others.
    — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
  • In that event, Biden will argue that Congress can’t limit indebtedness because that conflicts with the Fourteenth Amendment.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • Mortgages account for the lion’s share of indebtedness, but credit-card and auto-loan balances are becoming more problematic.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Experiential spending is more important to younger generations, and likely behind part of their growing indebtedness.
    — Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 11 July 2023

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