as in failures
the inability to pay one's debts
learned the hard way the costs of declaring bankruptcy
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Recent Examples of bankruptcies
With dozens of startups now in the field, some bankruptcies and consolidations are inevitable.
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Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2025
About The Daily Money Each weekday, The Daily Money delivers the best consumer and financial news from USA TODAY, breaking down complex events, providing the TLDR version, and explaining how everything from Fed rate changes to bankruptcies impacts you.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Corporate bankruptcies are going bigly in 2025.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025
For American farmers who export their harvests directly to Asia, the evaporation of Chinese demand for soybeans -- at a time when fertilizer and other inputs have become more expensive -- could potentially be devastating, and lead to bankruptcies and foreclosures.
—Matt Rivers, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
In that time, as hedges unwound shale patch bankruptcies followed stateside while OPEC members, especially those not in the Middle East, felt intense financial pain too.
—Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Over 79% of the mega bankruptcies cited it as a significant contributing factor.
—Joe Camberato, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Legislative scrutiny has been increasing in recent years but reached a new level of awareness and urgency with the bankruptcies of Steward Health and Prospect Medical Holdings.
—Tina Reed, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
In another potential warning sign on the economy, corporate bankruptcies are starting to pile up.
—Matt Egan, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2025
About The Daily Money Each weekday, The Daily Money delivers the best consumer and financial news from USA TODAY, breaking down complex events, providing the TLDR version, and explaining how everything from Fed rate changes to bankruptcies impacts you.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Corporate bankruptcies are going bigly in 2025.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025
For American farmers who export their harvests directly to Asia, the evaporation of Chinese demand for soybeans -- at a time when fertilizer and other inputs have become more expensive -- could potentially be devastating, and lead to bankruptcies and foreclosures.
—Matt Rivers, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
In that time, as hedges unwound shale patch bankruptcies followed stateside while OPEC members, especially those not in the Middle East, felt intense financial pain too.
—Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Over 79% of the mega bankruptcies cited it as a significant contributing factor.
—Joe Camberato, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Legislative scrutiny has been increasing in recent years but reached a new level of awareness and urgency with the bankruptcies of Steward Health and Prospect Medical Holdings.
—Tina Reed, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
In another potential warning sign on the economy, corporate bankruptcies are starting to pile up.
—Matt Egan, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bankruptcies
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Recently, researchers in China created two new AI systems to improve the safety and efficiency of fusion energy experiments by predicting plasma failures with extreme accuracy.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2025
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Overproduction comes from forecasting failures or execution mistakes, said Chan, adding that AI is not just about better demand predictions, but helping businesses make real-time decisions with accuracy.—
Lauren Parker,
Sourcing Journal,
1 Oct. 2025
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But on that record, even the happiest songs had a kind of love-among-the-ruins feel, where the romanticism seemed hard-fought.—
Liz Schubauer,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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The colt doesn’t know the racetrack he was bred for – the pride of Ruidoso – lies in ruins for the second year running, gutted by floodwaters that turned familiar dirt into a sucking bog of mud.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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The impact on business is particularly pronounced as rising global debt can undermine consumer spending, trigger higher borrowing fees, suppress available capital and result in corporate bankruptcies and/or insolvencies.—
Mitch Salchow,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Bankruptcies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bankruptcies. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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