How to Use go bust in a Sentence

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  • There’s no consensus about whether this tech boom is set to go bust anytime soon.
    Levi Sumagaysay, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • But most startup pro sports leagues, no matter how cutting-edge, go bust within the first year or two.
    Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Vice is the second digital news venture to go bust in recent weeks.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 15 May 2023
  • But the tide has definitely turned away from just assuming the live music boom can’t go bust again.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Aug. 2021
  • However, as noted above with Tait, teenage catcher prospects often go bust.
    Aaron Gleeman, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Both fear the Montana housing boom will go bust, even though the wealth of their employers offers some comfort.
    Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The investments could lose value and the portfolio companies could all go bust.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • And then there's the not insignificant matter of finding a new home that has their best interest at heart and won't go bust any time soon.
    Mina Harder, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Plenty more climate startups will go bust or be sold at a discount this year and next, venture investors tell Axios.
    Alan Neuhauser, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The tokens that crypto-earning games dole out are more volatile than Bitcoin and Ether, meaning the boom could go bust again.
    Eli Tan Jes Aznar, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The new regulations forced a number of bank mergers and saw many small regional banks quietly go bust.
    Anne Stevenson-Yang, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • And unlike 2006, which was the height of the last bubble, there are no signs that the market is going to go bust this time around.
    Curbed, 15 Feb. 2022
  • But a tinge of fear is starting to shadow that exuberance as investors worry the AI boom could go bust.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Until the booms go bust and the environmental bill comes due, hiring and pay often soar as the gas industry expands.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
  • If unemployment persists and companies go bust, as many economists expect, many more loans will sour.
    The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • More startups will go bust, and venture capital funds will continue to post negative returns.
    Edward Chancellor, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Indeed, the loans are mostly made to junky, highly leveraged companies, and sometimes junky companies go bust.
    William Baldwin, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
  • What happens to elderly people living in nursing homes when those facilities go bust?
    Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • Forbes senior contributor Peter Cohan sees many reasons why its stock could quickly go bust.
    Cio, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Macron and his government argue the law is essential to ensure that France’s generous pension system does not go bust.
    Reuters, NBC News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • And even if the trust-fund exhaustion date arrives around 2035 as predicted with no improvements, the system won’t go bust.
    Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2021
  • That's no different from professional skiers who wipe out in major races or inventors whose early aspirations go bust.
    Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 21 June 2021
  • Temporary layoffs could become permanent as employers go bust.
    The Economist, 2 June 2020
  • Eye-watering prices have caused 29 smaller energy suppliers in the UK to go bust since last summer.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Banks may lend to companies that go bust because of fires or floods, or because green regulations eventually upend their business models.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 19 Feb. 2022
  • An insurance company could sell life or health care policies, pay executives lavish salaries, and go bust when policyholders start to die off or get sick.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 23 Nov. 2025
  • As that 2020 housing boom begins to go bust, those who managed to close on a home in the crush of competition fed by rock-bottom mortgage rates should count themselves extremely lucky.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 3 Nov. 2022
  • This explains how an asset class once worth roughly $3 trillion could lose 72% of its value, and prominent intermediaries could go bust, with no discernible spillovers to the financial system.
    Greg Ip, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The tech sector benefited from the low-interest rate environment, experts said, noting the relative ease with which banks and venture firms could finance ambitious startups despite knowing that many of them would go bust.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Trump’s case Trump’s case involved 11 years of financial statements with values based on disputed and sometimes outright false descriptions of properties used as collateral should his loans go bust.
    Bernard Condon, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024

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