foreclose
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Not only does it create a lien against your home, but your relative could potentially foreclose on the property.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Friday's decision "is solely to foreclose the death penalty as an available punishment to be considered by the jury," Judge Margaret Garnett wrote in her opinion.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
This does not, of course, foreclose another question: Does the book add anything of additional value—defining the term, loosely, to include perspective and narrative fluency?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
"To hold otherwise would be to completely foreclose the further development of music in that genre or for that purpose."
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025
Hospital bills arrived daily; the uninsured roofer had sent a lawyer after them, as had Grover, who stood ready to foreclose.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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If the U.S. legally forecloses this question while other nations leave it open, we risk being strategically blindsided.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
Perhaps this is a deliberate choice, designed to spotlight how poverty forecloses any thought beyond the immediate present.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2023
“This Court’s longstanding precedent forecloses applicants’ attempt to have the courts look behind the request’s stated legislative purpose to the subjective motives of individual legislators,” she wrote.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022
"Deseret power is not meeting its legal obligation to exercise diligence, because its contract seemingly all but forecloses Deseret Power from using the water itself," he said.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2022
“The bank forecloses on people’s farms and throws them off their land, and they don’t even appreciate it.”
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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In 2011, Dimon named him head of the mortgage department—replacing Scharf—after former Marine Captain Jonathan Rowles testified before Congress about how JPMorgan had illegally foreclosed on his house while he was serving on active duty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
After all, the plaintiffs in Callais were themselves private enforcers of the VRA, and the court didn’t breathe a word about their claims being foreclosed on that ground.
From Slate ● May 19, 2026
Colony Ridge then benefited from the improvements made to the land it foreclosed on and resold the lots at higher prices.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026
Virginia does not have a “right of redemption,” so homeowners are generally not permitted to repurchase the foreclosed property.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 7, 2026
They’d have him disbarred; Bud Gleason would no doubt see that Hirsshorn foreclosed on his house.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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With a $127,000 federal tax lien on his New Orleans-area home in 2007 and a bank foreclosing on a second home in Florida, Alvendia joined Star Academy as a national salesman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
A-CAP was Glutality’s primary lender and became its owner after foreclosing on the venture’s assets in the months before Glutality’s October 2025 petition for Chapter 11 reorganization, court records show.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
By foreclosing that tool, the court doesn’t just alter the shape of judicial relief.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2025
“You’ve exploited it, you’ve benefited from these resources and now you are basically foreclosing the opportunity for others to go and exploit,” he said, referring to wealthier countries.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2023
In Braddock, Rankin, Homestead, Butler, Wierton, Natrona, Bethlehem and many other places, the companies put similar pressure upon their men, either evicting them or foreclosing the mortgages on their half-paid-for houses.
From The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by William Z. Foster
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