liquidation

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Recent Examples of liquidation The Hudson’s Bay retail chain, Canada’s oldest department store for over 350 years, shut down operations in May following the conclusion of its liquidation sale. Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025 Chaparro also noted that bitcoin and ether suffered less losses compared to alternative crypto-assets in this month’s massive liquidation event. Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025 While severe droughts have made this period of liquidation more acute than previous cycles, the industry is used to having free trade to move through the supply contraction. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025 The following March, the Weinstein Company would begin mediation, which would result in its liquidation by the time of the movie’s release. Jay Glennie, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025 Creditors face uncertainty as assets may be sold piecemeal and contested, potentially yielding less than an orderly liquidation—especially given FSS’s significant long-term liabilities. Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025 Position sizes, liquidation levels, trading patterns. Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025 Fashion commentators declared that Lamar had achieved the impossible—reviving a style of pants widely believed to be lost to time and the liquidation of Wet Seal. Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025 The sale ceased the liquidation process at several stores. Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for liquidation
Noun
  • Some said they were held in detention centers for months before their deportation and were moved multiple times to detention centers in multiple states before their removal from the United States.
    Daniel Gonzalez, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The attorneys for the Department of Justice argued that the preliminary injunction blocking Abrego Garcia’s removal to Liberia should be dissolved because the government received assurances from the government of the West African country that he will not be persecuted or tortured.
    Laura Romero, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Canada can re-establish its measles elimination status once transmission of the virus strain associated with the current outbreak is interrupted for at least 12 months, the Public Health Agency of Canada said on its website.
    Nadia Kounang, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Innovation with Purpose Polartec’s journey to achieve full PFAS elimination by 2021 went beyond a simple milestone or a regulatory push.
    SJ Studio, Sourcing Journal, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In fact, polls show a supermajority of Ohioans support the outright abolition of all property taxes.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • And an even larger proportion of the same segment of American society, even those willing to contemplate the abolition of slavery, could not imagine a post-emancipation America of racial equality as anything but a nightmare.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Borg represent our fear of erasure, of disappearing into a vast, flat, and uncaring bureaucracy, and are one of modern fiction's most deft updates to the existential horror first popularized in the fiction of Franz Kafka.
    Alan Bradley, Space.com, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The trailer continues through a selection of archival photos and videos, tracing the presence and subsequent erasure of Black people from cowboy culture.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • White South Africans, whose roots can be traced to settlers arriving under Dutch and British colonial rule, dominated the country through a system of racial segregation known as apartheid from 1948 until its abolishment in the early 1990s.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • And that was the report that recommended the abolishment of the coroner system.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Despite the 2025 report (read it here) showing a slight uptick from last year’s 468 to 489 LGBTQ characters across all platforms, that number takes a major blow as more than 200 (41%) of those characters will not return, due to series cancellations, endings or limited series format.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But finding another seat can be difficult, especially if this lasts into the holidays, or if bad weather causes flight cancellations elsewhere.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The annulment, first reported by Sports Business Journal, came as a surprise, given that the parties had portrayed the deal as having been consummated.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Her defense hopes that Friday's annulment of the case of the protester killings will pave the way for the court to similarly send back the clock on the main sedition case that resulted in her 10-year prison sentence.
    ISABEL DEBRE, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2025
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 17 Nov. 2025.

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