bankrupt
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Canada’s Nortel, which eventually went bankrupt, made up 38% of its main stock index.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
The bondholders may wind up owning the bankrupt company if it is reorganized, or could get back some of their investment if the company is liquidated, while the stockholders would get nothing.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
It entered talks in January with bankrupt US carrier Spirit Airlines over a possible takeover.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
While Berkshire managed to sell the shares for a gain in 1998, the company later went bankrupt twice.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
It was astonishing that a kid who had yet to put together his first date in Chicago would bankrupt himself—it had taken him months to scrape that money together—to get to a nanotechnology conference.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
Vocabulary lists containing bankrupt
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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