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
"The outage only lasted a day and now we have so much food, but most of it isn't going to go bad, as it is easily preserved."
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2025
“We might need you for locks, and if things go bad on the island, I don’t want to be stranded. I doubt you can pass yourselves off as members of the Menagerie.”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
