as in to adopt
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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Thanks to the team-up with CNN, Channel 4 can borrow their data feeds through the night.
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Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
Each measure authorizes a local city or school district to borrow funds by issuing bonds — and the measure contains a new property tax to pay off those loans.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024
Rather than embracing Western tenets wholesale, firms have selectively borrowed from abroad while keeping features of their own doctrine in areas ranging from management transparency and director independence to stakeholder diversity and successor selection.
—Michael Useem, Fortune Asia, 24 Oct. 2024
Among them is the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America Editor Kaylee McGhee White, who said Harris borrowed her opponent’s, former President Donald Trump, language surrounding immigration.
—Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Oct. 2024
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Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
Each measure authorizes a local city or school district to borrow funds by issuing bonds — and the measure contains a new property tax to pay off those loans.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024
Rather than embracing Western tenets wholesale, firms have selectively borrowed from abroad while keeping features of their own doctrine in areas ranging from management transparency and director independence to stakeholder diversity and successor selection.
—Michael Useem, Fortune Asia, 24 Oct. 2024
Among them is the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America Editor Kaylee McGhee White, who said Harris borrowed her opponent’s, former President Donald Trump, language surrounding immigration.
—Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Borrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borrow. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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