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Unsecured creditors of bankrupt Dish Wireless are seeking to appoint an independent trustee and disqualify the company’s legal adviser, White & Case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The increase is not based on fears about countries "going bankrupt".

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

In July, Amex got rid of its $100 Saks Fifth Avenue credit after the company went bankrupt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

In 1998, he left his vice president role at Compaq Computer — the world’s largest PC maker at the time — to join a nearly bankrupt Apple.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

Gates was right: Booms and bubbles may be economically dangerous; they may end up with many people losing money and a lot of companies going bankrupt.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the authors write, tried to ensure that only “honest but unfortunate” debtors benefited from bankruptcy’s by directing “professional bankrupts . . . to restitution or jail.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

“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

There are about 20 basic bank accounts available, but now only Barclays allows undischarged bankrupts to sign up.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2012

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

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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 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

The First Punic War spanned 23 years and nearly bankrupted both sides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

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

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

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

His comments follow a series of warnings over the recent surge in investment in AI, with some claiming the sector amounts to a bubble set to burst, rocking markets and bankrupting companies.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 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

Leonardo is now in Rome, where a new pope from the Medici family—Pope Leo X—is busy bankrupting the Vatican by commissioning massive new works of art.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day