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If the speaker doesn’t relent and these credits expire, people go bankrupt, people will get sick, some will die.—Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 7 Oct. 2025 Estimates of what Macy’s real estate portfolio might be worth vary widely, but everyone seems to agree that, in theory, the company could go bankrupt tomorrow and still be more valuable than its current market capitalization of nearly $5 billion.—Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025 The city could probably go bankrupt.—Veronica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025 Studies show that when Medicaid shrinks, more people delay care, more hospitals go bankrupt, and preventable deaths rise.—Anahita Dua, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for go bankrupt
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