How to Use subprime in a Sentence

subprime

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• Its founders were brought up on charges in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• But by the next year, the first tremors from the subprime mortgage crisis were being felt.
  — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
• Well, it’s been driven by the swing in mortgage rates and the impact of the subprime mortgage boom.
  — Sean Conlon, CNBC, 10 July 2024
• The economy was on the brink, there was a war in Afghanistan and a war in Iraq, there was the subprime mortgage crisis.
  — Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2013
• The anger at Web3 carries echoes of the fury over the subprime-mortgage meltdown almost 15 years ago.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2022
• The bank is beginning to see some cracks in the subprime auto loan market.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
• That may explain why so many were caught out by the problems in the subprime mortgage market.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• But where does Exeter get the money to make subprime auto loans?
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018
• This is not a repeat of the subprime mortgage boom and subsequent bust.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 17 May 2022
• That’s when the subprime mortgage crisis and the massive bank bailouts happened.
  — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024
• The steadiness of the financial world was rocked in 2008 by a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States.
  — Jon Markman, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• Lenders lost millions of dollars and many went out of business in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis that began in 2007.
  — cleveland.com, 28 June 2017
• Over the course of the next 12 years the couple refinanced the home twice, taking on subprime adjustable rate mortgages — the loans at the heart of the mortgage crisis.
  — Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2019
• Much of the crisis stemmed from illiquid, toxic subprime assets that had to be marked to market.
  — Mark Maurer, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023
• But after the subprime crisis in 2008 things went in the other direction.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• Dundon is lean and bestubbled, and made his fortune in subprime auto loans.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• Bank regulators started using the CRA in the mid-1990s to pressure banks to make subprime loans.
  — Phil Gramm and Michael Solon, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2020
• Yes, studies show that blacks received subprime loans at higher rates than whites.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 9 July 2019
• Vacancy rates slowly fell in the 1990s, but surged again after the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the subprime mortgage crisis.
  — Konrad Putzier, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
• Consumers with top-notch scores were less likely than those with a deep subprime score of below 580 to borrow with BNPL.
  — Gina Heeb, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• Now, the former Calvin Klein salesman is teaching mortgage brokers how to make subprime loans.
  — Kirsten Grind, WSJ, 12 June 2017
• Even though non-QM loans are considered riskier than QM loans, they should not be confused with the subprime loans that were at the center of the housing crisis.
  — Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2021
• One large study showed about 80% of people seeking abortions had subprime credit scores.
  — Hilary Fung, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
• Delinquencies on subprime car loans and leases hit an all-time high in February, based on Equifax’s tracking that goes back to 2007.
  — Annamaria Andriotis, WSJ, 19 May 2022
• One black swan, such as the 2009 collapse of the subprime mortgage market, can sometimes trigger a panic and a huge recession.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2022
• That's why subprime loans have higher-than-average rates.
  — Jim Slavik, Car and Driver, 4 Apr. 2023
• The company owns Credit One Bank, a mostly subprime credit-card issuer that’s the fastest-growing among the nation’s 15 largest card providers.
  — Bloomberg.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Shorting the subprime mortgage market is the biggest feather in Burry’s hat but there are a handful of others.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 16 May 2023
• The concern therefore is that, like subprime-mortgage originators in America in the early 2000s, Ant does not have enough skin in the game.
  — The Economist, 30 Dec. 2020
• Like most subprime customers, her credit history was rife with unpaid bills.
  — Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024