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In 2025, Trevor Sinclair was made bankrupt after failing to pay a tax bill of more than £36,000.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Former Liverpool and England player turned pundit Jamie Carragher faces being declared bankrupt over an unpaid tax bill, said to be in the region of £700,000 and £800,000.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

Don’t let a ransomware attack bankrupt your company.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

It didn’t do him any good to bankrupt himself buying war bonds.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

“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

Only the Co-op and Barclays offered accounts to those who are undischarged bankrupts - generally the 12 months after a bankruptcy order is made.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2012

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

Instead of producing big profits that would spur payouts for Enviva’s C-suite, however, the nine-figure trades backfired and bankrupted the company, which once had a nearly $6 billion market value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

The ill-fated wood-pellet trades that bankrupted Enviva during the sustainable-investing boom were made by executives hoping to trigger their own bonuses, according to creditors who are seeking more than $2 billion in damages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

His mother's devotion to the Unification Church bankrupted the family, and Yamagami bore a grudge against Abe after realising the ex-leader's ties to the controversial church.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 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

The nation’s electric utilities aren’t stepping up because the last two AP1000 units, completed over 2023-24, came in way over budget and took more than a decade to finish, bankrupting Westinghouse in the process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 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

Hastings and Sarandos’ enterprise was largely responsible for bankrupting the then-dominant video rental chain, Blockbuster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

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