How to Use credit rating in a Sentence

credit rating

noun
  • The City’s credit rating is currently very good but all these projects stress it out.
    — Warren Sturman, Sun Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Nvidia has a double-A credit rating, the third-highest score.
    — ArsTechnica, 15 June 2026
  • My credit rating is very high, and this seems very unfair to me as a longtime loyal customer.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2025
  • Paramount is currently weighed down by a heavy debt load that threatens its credit rating.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 8 July 2024
  • Publicly identify a goal credit rating and a time frame for reaching that goal.
    — Derek Douglas, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • First Republic's stock is tumbling, and so is its credit rating.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Those structures did not result in credit rating changes or result in poor investor feedback.
    — Pat Dowell, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Borrowing too much would hurt the state’s credit rating, increasing costs for future bonds.
    — Julia Shumway, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Instead, there’s now a warning on the credit rating on the MTA’s bonds.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
  • His credit rating has fallen from 800 to 600.
    — Mahsa Saeidi, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • This is not the first time the United States has experienced a change in credit rating.
    — Vivi Smilgius, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The credit rating agencies are circling, knowing that the city and school district are running out of one-time funding sources.
    — Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The company is at risk of losing its investment grade credit rating for the first time in its history.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 24 June 2024
  • My prior excellent credit rating has suffered due to late payments because of this.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The company aims to maintain a balanced debt-to-equity ratio and has a strong credit rating.
    — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Fitch Ratings this week moved Boeing’s credit rating closer to junk bond status.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2024
  • When the state incurs debt without paying it down or mitigating it, its credit rating reduces.
    — Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • The role of the credit rating firms is to assess the likelihood of those eventualities.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • That is the amount Boeing raised from a stock offering on Monday to avoid a credit rating downgrade.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • One agency has warned the US credit rating is at risk of a downgrade, even as the deadline approaches.
    — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
  • That didn't stop S&P from tanking Plainfield's credit rating.
    — Hayleigh Colombo, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • Do not pursue policies that would negatively impact the city’s credit rating.
    — Derek Douglas, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Begin by sorting your business records, examining your cash flow, and seeing your credit rating.
    — Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Overall economic growth is solid in The Gem State, and so is the state’s credit rating.
    — Scott Cohn, CNBC, 18 July 2024
  • Google has piles of cash and a red-hot stock, but is instead bringing its pristine credit rating to the deal table, backstopping crypto miners.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Lowering borrowing costs, for any public project, starts with improving the state’s credit rating.
    — Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • The state’s credit rating has been upgraded nine times during Pritzker’s tenure, from a low point of being one step above junk bond status.
    — Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
  • The company earns an Attractive-or-better rating in three of the five credit rating metrics.
    — David Trainer, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Africa’s long-running argument with the world’s credit rating agencies is becoming harder to ignore.
    — Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Under his reign, Illinois achieved the nation’s lowest credit rating and ranked as the second-most indebted and corrupt state.
    — Matt Paprocki, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025

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