foreclose
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Johnson’s case asks whether Congress intended to foreclose district court review of constitutional challenges to veterans’ benefits laws.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 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
Hospital bills arrived daily; the uninsured roofer had sent a lawyer after them, as had Grover, who stood ready to foreclose.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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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
Perhaps this is a deliberate choice, designed to spotlight how poverty forecloses any thought beyond the immediate present.
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
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In 2011, Dimon named him head of the mortgage department—replacing Scharf—after former Marine Captain Jonathan Rowles testified before Congress about how JPMorgan had illegally foreclosed on his house while he was serving on active duty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
That case, Gorsuch reasoned, was on point here: It foreclosed Flowers’ rule that workers needed to cross state lines or interact with vehicles traveling across borders to engage in interstate commerce.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
Colony Ridge foreclosed on the property three years later, even though Acevedo said she was making payments.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026
Virginia does not have a “right of redemption,” so homeowners are generally not permitted to repurchase the foreclosed property.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 7, 2026
But those hypothetical outcomes were foreclosed by mammal extinctions thousands of years earlier.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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By foreclosing rescission and large damages, the high court substantially narrowed the foundation for any significant plaintiffs’ fee award in future cases, lowering litigation risk at the margins.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
That approach could produce a formally narrow decision that nevertheless risks foreclosing meaningful relief for transgender individuals whose discrimination claims would otherwise warrant serious judicial consideration.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2026
Isabella County, in which the court will examine whether government has the right to keep value beyond what is owed in taxes after foreclosing on a home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
The complaint said Shein was also “instigating and supporting dubious copyright infringement lawsuits” against Temu, which is owned by popular Chinese e-commerce site Pinduoduo Inc., and foreclosing Temu’s access to suppliers through exclusivity agreements.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
For instance," the Squire continued, "I've a couple of mortgages foreclosing any time now—Sheard will tell you—I don't even know who the mortgagees are.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
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