How to Use creditworthy in a Sentence
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Some small banks have viewed credit cards as a way to cross sell their customers and to bring in new creditworthy customers.
—Annamaria Andriotis, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2018
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For starters, the buyers are creditworthy and there’s epic supply shortfall of new homes.
—Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2021
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However, this may not mean those in this age group are more creditworthy.
—Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2021
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Bank chiefs today want to do more than make loans to creditworthy borrowers.
—Rachel Louise Ensign, WSJ, 2 July 2019
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That's the interest rate that banks charge their most creditworthy customers.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2022
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The goal of the program is not to bail out specific companies but to make sure creditworthy firms have access to capital.
—Matt Egan, CNN, 29 June 2020
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Including them could help those firms fill the void left by big commercial banks, which have cut back on mortgage lending to all but the most creditworthy customers.
—Andrew Ackerman, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
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Apply for a private student loan with a creditworthy cosigner to increase the odds of approval and to reduce the interest rate.
—Mark Kantrowitz, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
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Banks offer customers who have proven to be creditworthy their best, or prime, interest rate.
—Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 18 Mar. 2021
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On the revenue side, half the improvement came from a gain on the sale of an asset and accounting gains that stem from Deutsche itself becoming less creditworthy.
—Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 16 July 2018
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Banks have spent much of the past 10 years chasing ultra-creditworthy borrowers.
—Annamaria Andriotis, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2018
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Part of the bad loan problem, critics argue, stems from easy lending to cronies, who run businesses that are often less than creditworthy.
—Quartz, 13 Dec. 2022
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The least creditworthy companies will struggle to raise money needed to hire and expand.
—David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2022
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Rewards programs, one of the biggest costs for large card issuers chasing creditworthy customers, are rare.
—Peter Rudegeair, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
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The lower the credit score, the higher the interest rate, so those new buyers are paying more every month on their mortgage than more creditworthy buyers would.
—Ross Martin, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
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That could lead more creditworthy homeowners to seek home-equity loans to finance projects.
—Christopher S. Rugaber, The Seattle Times, 3 June 2017
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And those differences may not make members of one group less creditworthy than members of another.
—Kareem Saleh, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
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Instead, many critics figured that less creditworthy borrowers were getting a break at the expense of those with higher scores.
—Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 8 May 2023
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Small farmers who previously weren’t considered creditworthy would then be able to get loans against their land.
—Payal Dhar, Wired, 15 Nov. 2021
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Yields on junk bonds, a measure of borrowing rates for the least creditworthy companies, are hovering below 4 percent, an all-time low.
—Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 15 June 2021
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Whatever the truth of Mr. Kavanaugh’s teenage behavior, this is not a creditworthy exercise in advise and consent.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
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That is partly because longer duration loans tend to go to less creditworthy borrowers, according to Moody’s.
—WSJ, 16 July 2021
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Along with rule changes made by the Clinton administration to raise homeownership rates, this led to a surge of new mortgages issued to less-creditworthy borrowers.
—David Z. Morris, Fortune, 26 July 2019
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Many targeted smaller finance companies that often catered to the least creditworthy borrowers with nowhere else to turn.
—Gabrielle Coppola, Bloomberg.com, 21 Dec. 2017
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But until there are creditworthy takers for fresh advances, deposits won’t revive.
—Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
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But a version more focused on small-business lending might be a way for the government to push cash into businesses in need — while letting private investors decide which firms are creditworthy.
—Neil Irwin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
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This is the interest rate banks charge their most creditworthy borrowers, like large corporations.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 16 June 2022
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Sure, some general purpose credit cards offer promotions to the most creditworthy customers at 0% for up to 21 months on purchases and in some cases on balance transfers.
—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2020
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Many of these consumers are creditworthy and can be qualified through alternative data sources.
—Sanjoy Malik, Forbes, 18 June 2021
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Without proper covenant protection, lenders will pass on even a creditworthy borrower's deal.
—Rocky Gor, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
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