as in bankrupt
not having enough money to pay debts
The company has become insolvent. insolvent debtors
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Recent Examples of insolvent
Anniek Bao,lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
Between 2021 and 2023 alone, nine insurers went insolvent, including three of the ten largest ones operating in Florida.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Kristian Burt, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
Trump's change would make Social Security’s retirement trust fund insolvent more thanone year earlier – in early 2032 instead of late 2033 -- and the initial 21% cut across the board would deepen to a 25% cut, CRFB said.
—Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
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Adjective
While its offshore entity has been in the liquidation process since last year, Evergrande's massive onshore units are also insolvent, offering little restructuring value, Lu added.
—Anniek Bao,lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
Between 2021 and 2023 alone, nine insurers went insolvent, including three of the ten largest ones operating in Florida.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
The group found that Trump’s agenda would make the government program insolvent in six years, shrinking the current timeline by a third, and expanding Social Security’s cash shortfall by trillions of dollars.
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—Kristian Burt, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
Trump's change would make Social Security’s retirement trust fund insolvent more thanone year earlier – in early 2032 instead of late 2033 -- and the initial 21% cut across the board would deepen to a 25% cut, CRFB said.
—Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insolvent
bankrupt
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The city was going bankrupt, the cops were on strike, and a fire had wiped out telephone service in my part of the East Side.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, arrives at court as lawyers push to persuade the judge overseeing his fraud case not to jail him ahead of trial, at a courthouse in New York, August 11, 2023.—
Dawn Giel,Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Insolvent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insolvent. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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