repossess
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When borrowers default or people can no longer justify maintenance fees, timeshare operators can repossess or cheaply buy back their vacation ownership.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Allowing the lender to repossess the vehicle is one option.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 29, 2025
In August 2024, 16 months after she arrived, the hospital started legal action against Jessie to repossess the bed she was in.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025
Hankey has said the goal is to stop loans from going bad, not repossess vehicles, which is costly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
He had explained to his supporters in a letter that he was so broke that the bank was trying to repossess his house.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
When the nefarious Pilkington Industries repossesses Manor Farm after a failure to make payments, the animals inhabiting the stead are nearly trucked off to their demise.
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
That is certainly a possibility, but it is a long, legal process before a lender repossesses somebody's home.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2022
And when buyers lose everything, the company repossesses the houses and sells them anew.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2015
He repossesses about 600 cars a year, getting paid an average of about $350 a car, mostly, if not always, by himself.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2015
No. Bank repossesses your land, that’s what happens.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Colony Ridge repossessed more than 15,000 lots, many owned by immigrants, a 2023 investigation by the Houston Landing found.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026
He smells of money, and she has a family whose house is about to be repossessed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
These auto-loan figures exclude accounts that are regarded as “seriously derogatory,” which refer to severely delinquent, charged-off or repossessed debts that are usually shut down and written off by lenders.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 4, 2026
A who’s who of high finance caught foreclosure fever, dispatching buyers to courthouse steps with duffel bags of cashiers checks to buy repossessed homes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
It’s true that everywhere he stopped he’d be helping a friend through one legal squabble or another—an immigration problem, a repossessed fishing boat.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
Caviness, 33, said he has been repossessing cars his entire adult life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Leasing companies warn that restrictions on repossessing their assets in case of defaults will drive up costs for all Indian airlines - even for IndiGo and Air India.
From Reuters ● Jun. 20, 2023
Autonomous vehicles that are not worth repossessing could be made to drive themselves to junkyards.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
But it was time to pass everything on, and he said he had no interest in repossessing the materials once the library had finished digitizing everything.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
Going to the vidphone, Iran said, “Why are you afraid? They're not repossessing the goat, not yet.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
