garnishment

Example Sentences

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“That garnishment actually pushed me below minimum wage. How was that legal?”

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

Research by Anthony DeFusco at the University of Wisconsin shows that borrowers typically remain in loan garnishment for only five months.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

The “next phase” of those efforts was garnishment, McMahon told reporters, “and that’s been put on pause,” she said.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 16, 2026

Wage garnishment typically begins after borrowers have missed payments for 270 days.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

So much he gained that in three years’ time he had gotten him more than three hundred pounds of garnishment, out-taken his plenishing, which was well worth fifty pounds. 

From Old French Romances by Morris, William