go bad
Example Sentences
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A big reason investors are ditching private credit is because they’re scared its loans are about to go bad.
From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026
“Whatever asset you’re looking at people are on a knife’s edge regarding leverage and that doesn’t have to go bad; that can go very very well before it goes very, very bad,” he said.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 18, 2026
Across rebel-held cities and towns, supermarket shelves sit empty while crops wither in inaccessible fields and go bad at rebel checkpoints.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
"I think yes, if people are going to go bad, they go bad, but you can't tar a whole religion based on your prejudices."
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026
She should have known it could go bad, what with the prayer and Henry’s hand on hers, and inside that the dark kernel of before.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
