bankrupt

As Ernest Hemingway wrote a century ago: One goes bankrupt two ways — gradually, and then suddenly.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

Commissioners are officials sent by the UK government to help run councils deemed to be failing or breaking the law, most often when a council is declared bankrupt.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Then, because the pills cost tens of thousands of dollars and could bankrupt budgets, state after state decided you couldn’t have the cure until your liver had scarred badly enough to prove you needed it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Security at the bankrupt development was lax but oversight has since been improved, Petty said, with round-the-clock security guards, cameras, laser devices and tall metal walls topped with razor wire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

“Well, it’s a bankrupt, self-serving way of thinking,” says Mrs. McCracken.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

“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

“Not doing so bankrupts the principles, leaving them worthless for all,” Mr. Orr said in September.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2015

"Take me away from here," she said, "you bankrupts."

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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

In its defense, Cox argued that internet service providers could be bankrupted by huge lawsuits for copyright infringement, which they said they did not cause and could not prevent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

The medical bills nearly bankrupted her family, so her older sister moved to Australia to support them.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025

“You must have bankrupted your kingdom for such a reward, my friend.”

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

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

The BOJ’s interest-rate increases may help by bankrupting some of Japan’s zombie companies that sop up resources with no hope of turning a profit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 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