bankrupt
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The Amsterdam-listed company, which operates bitcoin-mining operations once part of Sam Bankman-Fried’s bankrupt FTX, raised around $900 million to upgrade and expand its data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Dozens of other states and localities have filed similar suits in state courts, which, as Justice Brett Kavanaugh pointed out, could bankrupt the companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
A financial crisis in Europe led investors to dump American railway bonds, and Jay Cooke and Co. went bankrupt, a shock to Wall Street on the scale of JPMorgan failing today.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
There were the frozen steaks, the fraudulent university, the ill-fated airline shuttle, the bankrupt Atlantic City casinos and a short-lived dating show spun off from “The Apprentice” that was canceled after two seasons.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
A trained war-horse was also expensive, and Simon’s father was not alone in being bankrupt after the war.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
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"It's sad to see childhood legends turn into moral bankrupts," Heraskevych said.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
“If it so happens that it bankrupts or puts these individuals and entities in financial peril, so be it,” the attorney general said in an interview when the case was filed.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022
“If it so happens that it bankrupts or puts these individuals and entities in financial peril, so be it.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
The fight almost bankrupts the rural town of Shelby, Mont., which borrows heavily to stage it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2020
The customer who plays zero-sum games against them may win from time to time but never systematically, and never so spectacularly that he bankrupts the casino.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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It bankrupted the director, and he abandoned Justin's mother Caroline, leaving her with all his debts.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Ruinous competition amid fixed costs bankrupted dozens of airlines in the 1980s and 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
The man who shot Abe, Tetsuya Yamagami, said he had held a grudge against the prime minister because of his ties with the Unification Church, which had bankrupted his family.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
It was hugely successful, but we had a flood nine months after we opened, which bankrupted us, theoretically bankrupt, but we were able to climb out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
It was how she spent her time, buying up as many folks as she could, and rumor was she damn near bankrupted her and the major doing it.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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But she works far fewer hours in New Zealand, gets six weeks of paid vacation and unlimited sick days, and no longer feels like her care is bankrupting patients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Perhaps most evil are the acquisitions of hospitals for the sole purpose of bankrupting them and selling off assets to line someone else’s pockets.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026
If successful, Energy Transfer’s $300 million lawsuit may end up bankrupting the advocacy group as a whole, both domestically and internationally.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2025
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said England's care system was "bankrupting councils, letting families down, and above all, leaving too many children feeling forgotten, powerless and invisible".
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024
He thought nothing of bankrupting his own people to buy Rome’s protection.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
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