How to Use in bankruptcy in a Sentence

in bankruptcy

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  • That caused a last-minute rush in bankruptcy court on Wednesday.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Or, as Musk has warned, the company could land in bankruptcy court.
    Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The city ranks high for a year-to-year rise in bankruptcy filings and for search interest in debt and loans.
    USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Since then, its more than 100 fitness centers have been tied up in bankruptcy court.
    Brandon Gomez, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Now the company is in bankruptcy and looking to sell off assets.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
  • Giuliani has vowed to appeal and is fighting the judgment in bankruptcy court.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Yet even in bankruptcy court, title lenders in Georgia have the upper hand.
    Joel Jacobs, ProPublica, 13 July 2023
  • The families have been fighting him in bankruptcy court ever since.
    Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 7 June 2024
  • The families have been fighting him in bankruptcy court ever since.
    Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The plan called for allowing student loan debt to be discharged in bankruptcy just like other debts.
    Katie Lobosco, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The potential for more store closures comes after a fifth notice was filed in bankruptcy court.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The city ranks high for residents with accounts in distress and for year-to-year rise in bankruptcy filings.
    USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Finding a buyer for the company in bankruptcy could be a daunting task.
    Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Students unable to pay off such predatory loans should be resolved in bankruptcy court.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Among them is Chesapeake, a fracking pioneer that was in bankruptcy just two years ago.
    Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2023
  • But now the company is in bankruptcy, and winners’ dreams have turned into nightmares.
    Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Bally Sports channels have been in bankruptcy court for 19 months.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Some middle-class households could fall behind on mortgage and car payments, spend their savings and end up in bankruptcy.
    Catherine Brock, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • The once-prosperous toy store chain had collapsed in bankruptcy and shuttered all its stores several years ago.
    Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And if things don’t work out, existing owners might not be any better off since preferred stock ranks above common in bankruptcy.
    Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2023
  • First Brands is next scheduled to appear in bankruptcy court in Texas on Thursday.
    Jonathan Randles, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • But Moskowitz’s case versus Cuban and the Mavericks stood stalled in bankruptcy court.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 May 2023
  • By the middle of that month, FTX was in bankruptcy proceedings.
    Brandy Hadley, The Conversation, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Trench folded in bankruptcy in the 1990s and does not share roots in Oxford’s business.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The company is scheduled to make its first appearance in bankruptcy court on Monday.
    Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Purdue and the Sacklers are still held up in bankruptcy court over a plan to resolve thousands of other opioid cases.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Those assets were not insured by the government, and many investors are still attempting to claw back their money in bankruptcy court.
    Julian Mark, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • Instead, the airline in bankruptcy reached a deal with bondholders, who exchanged debt for equity.
    Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The big question early last month when the stalking-horse bid was disclosed in bankruptcy court papers was the uncertainty of which stores would stay open.
    Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The landlord argued that the vacancy of one of its storefronts was beyond its control because the tenant was in bankruptcy.
    Annika Merrilees, Sacramento Bee, 8 Jan. 2025

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