liquidation

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Recent Examples of liquidation Nevertheless, the liquidation of the airline that accounted for 5% of flights last year is certain to increase flight prices in the long term. Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 7 May 2026 County Commissioner Michael Udine has placed an item on next week’s budget workshop agenda to consider a liquidation sale purchase of Spirit headquarters, an 11-acre site off Interstate 95 in Dania Beach. Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2026 Bitcoin has gone from panic liquidation to constructive recovery, and the chart is beginning to reflect that shift. Tony Zhang, CNBC, 6 May 2026 Spirit Airlines is already going through the formal liquidation process and its assets will be allocated by the bankruptcy court to help settle its outstanding debts. Greta Cross, USA Today, 4 May 2026 The airline had declared bankruptcy multiple times and had struggled financially for years, but its president pointed to the higher jet fuel costs in his statement announcing the liquidation. Ford McCracken, ABC News, 3 May 2026 Spirit will now go through the liquidation process over the next several days. Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 3 May 2026 The future of that building could be determined in the airline’s liquidation. Miami Herald, 2 May 2026 Infowars is facing liquidation because of the more than $1 billion in defamation lawsuit judgments Jones owes relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting for calling the massacre a hoax. Jim Vertuno, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for liquidation
Noun
  • Following the playoff removal, Mike Hafley is no longer head coach at Poolville, with the district now seeking a new head baseball coach and an assistant.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 May 2026
  • Project work can include removal and disposal of hazardous and regulated materials; demolition; removal, transport and disposal of associated debris; backfilling; grading and site restoration; traffic maintenance; and soil erosion and sedimentation control.
    Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • In this cheeky iteration, romance will meet reality as the Islanders are faced with both team and couples’ challenges, all while navigating dating, eliminations, recoupling, dramatic arrivals, and new competition twists and turns that help control the game like never before.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 11 May 2026
  • In this cheeky iteration, romance will meet reality as the Islanders face both team and couples’ challenges, all while navigating dating, eliminations, recoupling, dramatic arrivals, and new competition twists and turns that help control the game like never before.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 11 May 2026
Noun
  • In Village People’s gay-empowerment lexicon this means joining a gay community, for true abolition from the slavery of societal/self-loathing cannot be achieved on one’s own.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026
  • Today, more than 150 years after the abolition of slavery in the United States, the history and memorialization of both America’s founding and the freedom movement illustrate Philadelphia’s major role in the success of the Underground Railroad.
    Jeremy Mennis, The Conversation, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • In the nation’s fastest-gentrifying city, Black DC refuses quiet erasure.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 May 2026
  • And its erasure marked the beginning of centuries of political attempts to pretend that slavery never happened.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • Its video shows Omar — at about four minutes into her speech — calling for the abolishment of ICE and for then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign or face impeachment.
    Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026
  • Over the past year, ICE has faced intense scrutiny from Democratic lawmakers, some of whom have called for its abolishment.
    Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The strike forced the cancellation of the union’s awards show on March 8 in downtown Los Angeles, though the New York show went ahead as planned.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 8 May 2026
  • The cancellation marks another twist in the long career of the former Sacramento Kings play-by-play announcer.
    Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • After that ended in an annulment, Paschel went on to wed three more times (in 1998, 2007 and 2015) and fathered at least four children, including his late son Kazhem, who died in March 2018 at 13 months old.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
  • The annulment was controversial; even some of Georgescu’s leftist detractors argued that the decision was anti-democratic.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • A couple of other candidates lurk in the wings, but SOFR is achieving the most traction, according to Rob Finlay, founder of Thirty Capital, LLC, a defeasance and derivative consulting firm.
    Joshua Stein, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021

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“Liquidation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liquidation. Accessed 15 May. 2026.

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