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  2. 100 Words That Can Change Your Credit History - AOL

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    Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, all three credit-reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion) in the United States are required to allow consumers to attach a 100-word statement to ...

  3. Why Your Perfect Credit Isn't Enough for a Credit Card Approval

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    For example, if you were denied for having too many new credit cards, wait at least six to 12 months without applying for any more cards. If your DTI ratio was too high, focus on paying off debt.

  4. How to build credit without a credit card - AOL

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    Credit cards are a popular credit-building option for American consumers. In 2023, about four out of five American adults (82 percent) had a credit card. However, credit cards are not the only option.

  5. Credit crunch - Wikipedia

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    A credit crunch (a credit squeeze, credit tightening or credit crisis) is a sudden reduction in the general availability of loans (or credit) or a sudden tightening of the conditions required to obtain a loan from banks. A credit crunch generally involves a reduction in the availability of credit independent of a rise in official interest rates.

  6. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  7. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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    When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb. Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or ...

  8. Do balance transfers hurt your credit score? - AOL

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    For example, say you currently have two credit cards. Your first card has a credit limit of $10,000 and a current balance of $5,000. Your second card has a credit limit of $4,000 and a balance of ...

  9. Credit rationing - Wikipedia

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    It is an example of market failure, as the price mechanism fails to bring about equilibrium in the market. It should not be confused with cases where credit is simply "too expensive" for some borrowers, that is, situations where the interest rate is deemed too high. With credit rationing, the borrower would like to acquire the funds at the ...