live on borrowed time

Examples of borrowed

borrowed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In order to develop a more integrative approach, we borrowed the essence of the gametheoretic apparatus and modified it somewhat liberally.
Liberal feminists borrowed the rhetoric of unjust exclusion and applied it to their own case.
The words of the burlesque's song are cleverly structured to echo the rhymes of the borrowed tune.
Many of the ideas used to good effect in computational syntax, most strikingly various versions of feature inheritance, have been borrowed from programming languages.
Choreographers borrowed the plots, characters and usually the titles of the original works, copying much of the action scene by scene.
The final paper, somewhat inconclusively, treats the issue of the extent to which borrowed words "fill gaps" in the existing lexicon.
Here, however, the morphological encoding of structure was borrowed separately from the abstract structure it represents.
Even after a word has been borrowed, it is still available for codeswitching.
Other examples involve the maintenance of the spelling that the borrowed word has in its language of origin.
Some are words that become names for communities only after they are borrowed into another language.
If a bank borrowed, there were more reserves in the system.
Across both languages, more nouns were borrowed than verbs, but more verbs were transferred than nouns.
Generally, the models used to help interpret the archaeological data are borrowed from other societies and other times.
They seek to overcome this problem by arguing that it could have been borrowed in a possessed form, which would lack the absolute suffix.
Moreover, the region has borrowed concepts from the developed world which are not always appropriate in the continent.
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