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foreclose

[fawr-klohz, fohr-] / fɔrˈkloʊz, foʊr- /
VERB
exclude
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STRONG


VERB
take away the right to redeem a mortgage
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A buyer could foreclose on the property and potentially change its use to advanced manufacturing such as aerospace or defense, which is in high demand in Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

Not only does it create a lien against your home, but your relative could potentially foreclose on the property.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

Pinnacle filed for bankruptcy last year after Flagstar moved to foreclose on the portfolio.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

But circumstances can change, and a permanent prohibition against Ukrainian membership would foreclose a step that may become necessary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

“Certain items supposedly from the estate of President and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln have surfaced in a house the bank is forced to foreclose on. Do you grasp what this could mean, Mrs. Dowdel?”

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

If the U.S. legally forecloses this question while other nations leave it open, we risk being strategically blindsided.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

"There is an adequate state ground for the prosecution and that forecloses Supreme Court jurisdiction on that issue," Peck said.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2024

In “Class,” however, that anger forecloses the greatest gift of the memoir genre, which is self-reflection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

“This Court’s longstanding precedent forecloses applicants’ attempt to have the courts look behind the request’s stated legislative purpose to the subjective motives of individual legislators,” she wrote.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022

“The bank forecloses on people’s farms and throws them off their land, and they don’t even appreciate it.”

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

The bank foreclosed on the property in 1997, and the city took it over two years later, at the turn of the century.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

Many are sitting on mountains of debt and might have been foreclosed on by now, but they say banks don’t want their struggling properties either.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

After all, the plaintiffs in Callais were themselves private enforcers of the VRA, and the court didn’t breathe a word about their claims being foreclosed on that ground.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

Colony Ridge foreclosed on the property three years later, even though Acevedo said she was making payments.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026

They’d have him disbarred; Bud Gleason would no doubt see that Hirsshorn foreclosed on his house.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

With a $127,000 federal tax lien on his New Orleans-area home in 2007 and a bank foreclosing on a second home in Florida, Alvendia joined Star Academy as a national salesman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

A-CAP was Glutality’s primary lender and became its owner after foreclosing on the venture’s assets in the months before Glutality’s October 2025 petition for Chapter 11 reorganization, court records show.

From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026

By foreclosing that tool, the court doesn’t just alter the shape of judicial relief.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2025

Most defendants take plea deals to avoid the risk of lengthy sentences, foreclosing the opportunity for appeals challenging the constitutionality of using the law in such circumstances.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2023

The lands on which we are encamped he got two years ago from their proprietor, Futteh Bahader, by foreclosing a mortgage, in which he and others had involved him.

From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by William Sleeman


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