How to Use go bankrupt in a Sentence
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But she was sued by her previous manager and had to go to court (and go bankrupt) to be free of him.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 June 2023
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Most of the time, investors do not see monetary recovery and can go bankrupt.
—Fox News, 18 Dec. 2021
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When companies go bankrupt, their gift cards can become worthless.
—Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 2 Jan. 2021
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But some jobs will become obsolete, and some companies will go bankrupt.
—Jack Ewing Maddie McGarvey, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
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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
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Without the tax, the city is projected to go bankrupt by 2024, even with drastic cuts.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
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Planes still fly in and out of Chicago’s other two airports, the world didn’t end and Chicago did not go bankrupt.
—Laura Johnston, cleveland, 23 Mar. 2022
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What separates the most successful retailers from those that go bankrupt?
—Peter Cohan, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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Brooks Brothers is the latest iconic retailer to go bankrupt.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 8 July 2020
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One student argued that every country would go bankrupt if required to pay reparations for past misdeeds.
—Patrick Thomas, WSJ, 3 June 2021
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Yes, your company might go bankrupt, but our actors and directors are carrying firearms and burying their colleagues.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 Mar. 2022
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That means that Pierpoint doesn’t have the money to pay back the companies that bought said debt, which could mean that the bank would essentially go bankrupt.
—Nina Li Coomes, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2024
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And out goes the window Mamdani’s rash promise to freeze rents in stabilized units, otherwise landlords would go bankrupt.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
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When companies go bankrupt, stockholders are typically the last in line to recover any funds.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 10 Jan. 2023
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If those collapse, the entire country will go bankrupt—excluding the oligarchs with gracious homes in London.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2022
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Coinbase has warned that, were the crypto exchange to go bankrupt, its users could lose all their cryptocurrencies that are stored in Coinbase accounts.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 11 May 2022
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These wells are left behind — orphaned to the state — after their owners, often oil and gas companies, go bankrupt or when the wells fall into disrepair.
—Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 29 June 2021
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The law also requires coal mining companies to secure bonds to cover the costs of reclamation should the companies go bankrupt.
—James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 18 Apr. 2022
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Dozens of the startups that have been funded are expected to fail, go bankrupt or get acquired for their intellectual property.
—Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 18 June 2022
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In the boom-and-bust world of oil and gas drilling, though, operators frequently go bankrupt, leaving wells orphaned and unplugged, and taxpayers on the hook.
—Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 8 May 2023
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Many owners of crabbing vessels may go bankrupt without help, and once lost, the industry know-how and supply chain could be difficult to resurrect.
—David Faris, The Week, 20 Oct. 2022
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Those difficulties have led to several small antibiotic makers to go bankrupt in recent years.
—Denise Roland, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
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Imagine if Microsoft were to go bankrupt and Windows were to disappear from the marketplace.
—Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2022
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The tactics alleged by the attorney general are commonly used in the industry to squeeze profits from old wells before companies go bankrupt.
—Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 22 Jan. 2026
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Many of their people have no concept of a world in which people go bankrupt over medical bills, something that is an everyday reality in the US.
—Dylan Scott, Vox, 6 Dec. 2024
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States and the federal government require oil and gas companies to post bonds or other forms of financial assurance as a down payment in case firms go bankrupt before plugging wells.
—Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2021
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Many highly successful, inherently profitable brands go bankrupt trying to maintain this fragile balancing act.
—Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 30 June 2026
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The situation brewing is also reminiscent of the kind of thing that made crypto-lending firm Celsius Network go bankrupt.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2022
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In theory, cleanup is guaranteed by financial instruments called bonds that companies fund and that regulators can put toward the cost of retiring wells if drillers go bankrupt or walk away.
—Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 6 May 2024
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Einstein had to overcome growing up Jewish in 19th-century Germany, watching his father go bankrupt.
—WIRED, 15 Sep. 2023
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