creditor

Example Sentences

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Glutality’s largest unsecured creditor is insurance giant United HealthCare, which has asserted an $8.5 million claim against the start-up citing “overpayment for medical services.”

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

Kerr is listed as an AllHere creditor in bankruptcy documents.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

ConocoPhillips is the country’s largest nonsovereign creditor and has been fighting tooth and nail to recoup the roughly $12 billion it is still owed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

Roomba’s parent company, Massachusetts-based iRobot, declared bankruptcy in December and will be taken over by the Chinese manufacturer that is its main creditor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

I didn’t want Rufus having to face some creditor that I had angered with my twentieth-century brevity—which could come across as nineteenth-century abruptness, even discourtesy.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler