creditor
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Rahm is under contract with LIV beyond this year and is still owed tens of millions of dollars, making him a potential creditor if LIV files.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
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 remains Zambia's largest bilateral creditor, with about US$4.5 billion owed to Chinese lenders, equivalent to roughly 15 percent of total public and publicly guaranteed debt, according to the IMF.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 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
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
According to the filing, Signorello Estate believes it owes its creditors between $10 million and $50 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Sources have said contracts under the previous iteration of LIV Golf will finish because of this court filing, with amounts owed to players and other creditors addressed through the court process.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
His office argued that bankruptcy proceedings end up hurting victims by forcing them to compete with other creditors for compensation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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
Soon creditors began appearing at the pharmacy demanding repayment of mortgages secured by the store’s furnishings and its stock of salves and ointments and other goods.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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