bankrupt

As Ernest Hemingway wrote a century ago: One goes bankrupt two ways — gradually, and then suddenly.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

"We were then quoted around about £45m and that would bankrupt the council," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Then, because the pills cost tens of thousands of dollars and could bankrupt budgets, state after state decided you couldn’t have the cure until your liver had scarred badly enough to prove you needed it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Don’t let a ransomware attack bankrupt your company.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

The economy worldwide fell into depression, and like many others, Houseman’s company went bankrupt.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the authors write, tried to ensure that only “honest but unfortunate” debtors benefited from bankruptcy’s by directing “professional bankrupts . . . to restitution or jail.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

"It's sad to see childhood legends turn into moral bankrupts," Heraskevych said.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

“If it so happens that it bankrupts or puts these individuals and entities in financial peril, so be it.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

The fight almost bankrupts the rural town of Shelby, Mont., which borrows heavily to stage it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2020

The customer who plays zero-sum games against them may win from time to time but never systematically, and never so spectacularly that he bankrupts the casino.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The man who shot Abe, Tetsuya Yamagami, said he had held a grudge against the prime minister because of his ties with the Unification Church, which had bankrupted his family.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

The cases are ongoing, with plaintiffs also filing claims against the trusts of companies bankrupted by the litigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026

Yamagami is reported to have told investigators he targeted Abe because he blamed the 67-year-old for allegedly promoting the church, which he said had bankrupted his mother and the wider family.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025

He takes credit for devising the strategy behind Thiel’s litigation that ultimately bankrupted Gawker Media.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025

The Thirty Years’ War, which had pummeled and bankrupted much of Europe, was finally winding down, and intellectual life flourished.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

County lawyers have long viewed the $4-billion settlement as a good deal, arguing that taking the cases to trial would be a bankrupting proposition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Perhaps most evil are the acquisitions of hospitals for the sole purpose of bankrupting them and selling off assets to line someone else’s pockets.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026

The BOJ’s interest-rate increases may help by bankrupting some of Japan’s zombie companies that sop up resources with no hope of turning a profit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

If successful, Energy Transfer’s $300 million lawsuit may end up bankrupting the advocacy group as a whole, both domestically and internationally.

From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2025

Leonardo is now in Rome, where a new pope from the Medici family—Pope Leo X—is busy bankrupting the Vatican by commissioning massive new works of art.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day