bankrupt
Example Sentences
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The First Punic War spanned 23 years and nearly bankrupted both sides.
The meteorologist from Cincinnati spins the wheel and goes bankrupt, but then the schoolteacher from Kansas manages to find three Ns in the puzzle.
From Literature
PdVSA is now virtually bankrupt, with roughly $60 billion in external debt and little hope of raising its production on its own, according to Venezuelan economists.
At least three went bankrupt in the following year.
JM Eagle is a large producer of plastic and PVC pipe, a business it got into in 1982 after purchasing those operations from Johns-Manville Corp., which went bankrupt because of asbestos claims.
From Los Angeles Times
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