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liquidate

[lik-wi-dayt] / ˈlɪk wɪˌdeɪt /




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Being forced to liquidate that much of his stake could tip the firm’s control into Siegel’s favor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Turkey’s financial regulatory agency froze trading by seven asset managers and announced plans to liquidate 131 individual investment funds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The government initially took control of SSUK, previously part of Liberty Steel, last year after it was forced to liquidate by the High Court.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

For example, if taxes effectively cost you $20,000, you’d need to liquidate $120,000, which at 7% could have grown to roughly $464,000 over the next two decades.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

“It's from that summer house he had. The one his father gave him that we never went to. He has to liquidate it and I’m getting the money!”

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

If Spirit liquidates, other airlines, including Frontier, JetBlue, and United, are expected to backfill its markets and acquire assets.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

If the loan-to-value ratio exceeds 80%, Ledn automatically liquidates the bitcoin to pay off the loans, giving any leftover proceeds back to the borrower.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

If the company liquidates, all shareholders — including those who bought in at very high prices — would be paid about $10 a share.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2022

Rah8 liquidates to a winning endgame in which the outside passed a-pawn will spell Black’s doom.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2022

And he liquidates his obligations to a great deal of asthmatic cough, while the jumping frog does his bidding.

From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan

The 42-year-old was charged with fraud after authorities liquidated his private bank Banco Master, which left debts worth over $7 billion in its trail.

From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026

“Many of them will be using margin and will get liquidated once the bubble pops, which seems to be what happened in South Korea.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026

The state of Delaware wrongly seized and liquidated his stock after the man didn’t log into his trading account for years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

It all fell apart again in 2007, when he liquidated his largest fund after it suffered losses of more than 70%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Eventually, UBS liquidated all of his assets and transferred them to Landsbanki in Reykjavik.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Chapter 7 bankruptcy is about liquidating qualifying assets to pay off your debt.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

The most obvious one is the cost of liquidating that wealth by either downsizing to a cheaper home or moving to a rental.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

This July, they announced that they will be liquidating the company’s $140 million portfolio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Blue Owl capped redemptions at 5% in both funds, a built-in feature to avoid liquidating corporate loans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Although he was convinced at that time of the urgency of liquidating the Conservative regime, the plot horrified him.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


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