liabilities

plural of liability
as in debt
something (as money) which is owed your liabilities total about $200,000

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Recent Examples of liabilities But Bear Stearns was leveraged up to 25 times with very long-term assets funded by short-term liabilities, Kotowski said. Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025 Undue Medical Debt, a national group working on the effort and taking over some hospital liabilities, will send at least 255,000 notices this week to other recipients. Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025 The late former General Electric chairman and CEO taught that human qualities are liabilities to performance. Sydney Lake, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025 This money is expected to help meet ongoing liabilities from them, as well as the £150m or so net spend of the summer just ended. Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025 Selling existing holdings and repurchasing through ISA or pension wrappers could eliminate future tax liabilities, though investors must consider timing and potential capital gains on existing positions. Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2025 And the law did include several measures that, at first glance, appeared to reduce seniors’ financial liabilities, especially their out-of-pocket costs. Robert Goldberg, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025 The company has between $100,000 and $500,000 in liabilities, the documents continued. Saleen Martin, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025 Current liabilities were reported at $5,898, while stockholders' equity was $22,494. Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 25 Mar. 2025
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Noun
  • Top schools continue to increase tuition while many young adults fall deeper and deeper into debt.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Ruto’s administration inherited a debt crisis upon taking office three years ago and has struggled to reduce its budget financing gap.
    Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • With potential regulatory fights to come, this is a potential boon and is a way of circumventing content quotas and other obligations that European countries want to establish.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Venus opposite Saturn can feel like an ultimatum in a relationship, a financial obligation that can’t be pushed aside, or simply coming to terms with what is no longer sustainable.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025

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“Liabilities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liabilities. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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