bankrupt
Example Sentences
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"It's bankrupt. We didn't make it bankrupt, we inherited it," he said.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
Last year, Bed Bath & Beyond’s executive chairman, Marcus Lemonis, said his bankrupt company won’t be reopening any stores in California, where it used to have more than 80 locations.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
HPS Investment Partners, a private-credit fund that BlackRock bought for $12 billion last year, was stung by a telecom-services company that went bankrupt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
The reality is this: Social Security, which has roughly 69 million beneficiaries, is not going bankrupt.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026
This alarmed the Nazi leaders, who worried that the damages would bankrupt the German insurance companies.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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