extinguishment

Example Sentences

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However, on a net basis, which includes losses on debt extinguishment and the impact of equity-based compensation, Wayfair lost 89 cents a share, falling well below Wall Street’s expectations for 1 cent per-share profit.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 19, 2026

The Environmental Protection Agency is taking over extinguishment efforts for a landfill fire in Moody, Alabama, federal officials announced Thursday.

From Washington Times • Jan. 20, 2023

He discussed “the extinguishment of the national debt,” and devoted many words to the maintenance of military might.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2017

That human yearning for moral certainty and clarity, even at the risk of extinguishment or fiery damnation, runs through Cohen’s lyrics.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2016

If that amount of the credits were extinguished by bankruptcy proceedings in which no money passed in either direction, such an extinguishment could not depress or expand prices; it could have no influence upon them.

From The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 by Various