creditor
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The GLA said that, as is standard practice in insolvency law, it had informed the administrators of the government's interest as a potential creditor.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
China is also the largest single bilateral creditor with Solomon Islands debt to Chinese banks for infrastructure projects doubling last year.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
The leverage the city has on the pending sale includes its status as a creditor seeking to recoup public funds spent to protect the complex with fencing and deploy police security to prevent vandalism.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
The strength of this creditor protection depends on how the trust is drafted.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 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
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Another advantage to a trust: For the most part, an irrevocable trust would shield assets from your mother’s creditors, if she had any.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
According to the filing, Signorello Estate believes it owes its creditors between $10 million and $50 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
As creditors, the players stand to get a fraction of what they were initially promised.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
An executor has a fiduciary responsibility to transparently and honestly deal with all aspects of the deceased’s estate, including paying creditors and taxes and distributing assets to heirs.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Chamberlin claimed later that this attorney had been so angry at having his recommendation rebuffed that he tipped Holmes to the fact the creditors were again leaning toward arrest.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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