Thesaurus results for BANKRUPTCY

bankruptcy

noun

ˈbaŋk-(ˌ)rəp(t)-sē

Definition of bankruptcy

as in ruin

the inability to pay one's debts learned the hard way the costs of declaring bankruptcy

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Recent Examples of bankruptcy The board claimed the temporary closure was because the center is headed for bankruptcy and won’t have the funds to pay its staff. — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2026 The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 2017 while carrying approximately $5 billion in debt. — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026 Referring to the Kennedy Center’s earlier comments, Werkheiser said filing for receivership does not require for the organization to be in bankruptcy and is often done to prevent bankruptcy proceedings. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 17 Sep. 2026 Today’s hearing brought up new questions about those claims, including what bankruptcy would even mean for a charitable trust organization created by Congress. — Janay Kingsberry, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bankruptcy

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The Strip had been largely obliterated in the war between Hamas and Israel, and most of its two million inhabitants were living in tents or in the ruins; images of human misery had flooded screens around the world.

— Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Three firefighters stand atop a pile of twisted steel and debris, raising an American flag above the ruins of the World Trade Center.

— Thomas E. Franklin, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of ruin

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It is built the same way that the figure skater builds a routine or the running back learns to explode through a crack in the line—repetition after repetition, failure after failure, with no shortcut available and no machine that can stand in.

— Dan Rockmore, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
That makes preventing deployment and routing failures especially important as these fleets expand.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of failure

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The proposal would have allowed the state Department of Finance to advance future state funding to a school district facing cash insolvency.

— Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2026
By doing this, lowest-income beneficiaries would receive larger benefits, poverty would be reduced, and Social Security's insolvency would be delayed, advocates said.

— Medora Lee, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026

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