deep in debt

phrase

: owing a large amount of money : having a lot of debt
They found themselves deep in debt.

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The plan was to have more time to write, but early 2020 found me near the end of a nerve-racking, preposterously difficult restoration, grandchildren-deep in debt, and with a small hotel on an island no one had heard of. Literary Hub, 15 July 2026 Freston was thirty-three, deep in debt, and back in New York City when he got hired as the marketing guy at a start-up that would become MTV. Literary Hub, 19 Dec. 2025 Increasing deliveries of its popular single-aisle airplane is critical to restoring Boeing's financial stability following years of production disruptions and crises that have left it deep in debt and losing money. David Shepardson, USA Today, 17 Oct. 2025 Shamefully, Sheinbaum is sending oil below market prices to Cuba even though Mexico’s state oil company, Pemex, is deep in debt and parts of her own country are facing gasoline shortages. Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for deep in debt

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“Deep in debt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deep%20in%20debt. Accessed 22 Jul. 2026.

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