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noun

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Recent Examples of insolvent
Adjective
Pritzker also sided with government unions over taxpayers by authorizing around $100 million in new annual pension sweeteners for two nearly insolvent Chicago funds. Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025 In the past, the Chinese government had preferred financially sound developers over insolvent ones when deciding their eligibility to get government support. Bloomberg, Fortune Asia, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
The British government pulled funding and, in early 1982, declared the DeLorean Motor Co. insolvent. Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024 The scheme impacted both investors trading and the exchange itself, which had to suspend operations after Eisenberg's attack made the exchange insolvent. Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 19 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for insolvent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insolvent
Adjective
  • Zoom in: It's made one investment so far, a $10 million take-private last September of bankrupt solar installer iSun, yielding stakes in five companies: iSun Industrial, which the firm rebranded as Legacy Power.
    Alan Neuhauser, Axios, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The party, once bankrupt and on the verge of irrelevance in the Bay State, was supposed to be reinvented with new blood at the top and a purging of the old poison like former party chair Jim Lyons.
    Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 29 Mar. 2025

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“Insolvent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insolvent. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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