How to Use subprime in a Sentence

subprime

adjective
  • The housing market was about to collapse due to risky subprime loans.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2026
  • But by the next year, the first tremors from the subprime mortgage crisis were being felt.
    — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Yes, studies show that blacks received subprime loans at higher rates than whites.
    — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 9 July 2019
  • The bank is beginning to see some cracks in the subprime auto loan market.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
  • This is not a repeat of the subprime mortgage boom and subsequent bust.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 17 May 2022
  • 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
  • Dundon is lean and bestubbled, and made his fortune in subprime auto loans.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • 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
  • There are no subprime conditions.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 27 May 2026
  • There are no subprime conditions.
    — Nick Caloway, CBS News, 26 May 2026
  • That’s when the subprime mortgage crisis and the massive bank bailouts happened.
    — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Its founders were brought up on charges in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Such was the case in 2008, when loans played a key role in the subprime mortgage crisis.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Much of the crisis stemmed from illiquid, toxic subprime assets that had to be marked to market.
    — Mark Maurer, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The focus today is not on toxic mortgages but on subprime auto loans.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • If a borrower doesn't improve their score, the subprime tax can snowball over the long run, Bankrate found.
    — Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The subprime market is usually the first to feel the pain of an economic slowdown.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Yet those aren’t rates that subprime borrowers will be offered, Triggs said.
    — Sharon Epperson,stephanie Dhue, CNBC, 20 Feb. 2026
  • If only subprime loans targeting minorities hadn’t pumped the market and then helped tank it.
    — Patricia Borns, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Subprime borrowers and deep subprime borrowers are not likely to buy new cars.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Yet Dundon remained a player among subprime auto lenders.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That growth was built almost entirely with subprime borrowers.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2025
  • 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 stock market hit a bottom in the midst of the global financial crisis, brought in part by the subprime mortgage crisis.
    — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Bankrate defined a score of 620 and lower as subprime, and a score of 700 and higher as prime.
    — Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Co-signers can help subprime borrowers get approved for a loan or other form of debt and get better repayment terms.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 9 June 2026
  • Now, the former Calvin Klein salesman is teaching mortgage brokers how to make subprime loans.
    — Kirsten Grind, WSJ, 12 June 2017
  • 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 reason for the shortage is that the country has not build enough homes since the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008.
    — Giulia Carbonaro, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025

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