How to Use indebtedness in a Sentence

indebtedness

noun
  • 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
  • Household indebtedness does not stop with these formal forms of debt.
    — Christian Weller, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
  • If passed, school districts would have to include payments of bonds, indebtedness and contracts.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • That means African indebtedness is starting to be a real problem.
    — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 12 Sep. 2022
  • There are notes of indebtedness, memos to merchants, and a reckoning of an account for beer.
    — Charlotte Higgins, The New Yorker, 1 May 2017
  • Chinese private sector indebtedness is now the highest in the world.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • Was confess my wariness over assuming that much indebtedness to him or anybody else.
    — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Without a raise in the ceiling, the Treasury won’t be able to issue new indebtedness.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • An remarkable facet of the rise of indebtedness is that it is correlated with other ‘crises’.
    — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
  • That also was the last time that Chinese indebtedness actually fell on the year.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 26 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yet, the new ways Ice plays with her voice and delivery on Y2K are a welcome indebtedness to the queen.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Having the Fed as a monetary hoover to keep bond yields stable will help to dampen some of the risks of indebtedness, but will store up greater risks for later.
    — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But Coogler did not let this relationship or any sense of indebtedness bias him against Weinstein’s victims.
    — Zaron Burnett Iii, Teen Vogue, 24 Oct. 2017
  • But in the working class remade and discarded for the postindustrial age, there is an uptick in drug abuse, one-parent families, and indebtedness.
    — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 20 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That’s because one way a district can qualify for financial hardship is to have bond indebtedness of at least 60% of the total bonding capacity.
    — Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The Riksbank at the end of May said high household indebtedness was making the Swedish financial system vulnerable.
    — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 1 July 2018

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